During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confiscated objects flowed into the Parisian dépôts (repositories) while the system of national collections was being overhauled along rational lines and modelled on a system of knowledge. Each object was then assigned a place beforehand within one of the cabinets in the French capital. Natural history specimens went to the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle while art works were being directed to the Muséum des Arts and books to the Bibliothèque nationale. However, some sets of objects - mummies, antique statues, exotic artefacts etc. - were not given a well-defined place within the system of collections. These boundary-objects (material things concurrently...
De la Renaissance au XVIIIe siècle a lieu un bouleversement majeur qui est la progressive diminution...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
The paper describes different types of collections known in the West : treasuries which are the only...
During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confisca...
Cabinets of curiosities borned in XVIe century. Their history is complexed and bad known. Until XIXe...
République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des sci...
At the beginning of the 19th century, collectors were antique-loving, erudite aristocrats. Later, th...
In Europe, the second half of the Nineteenth Century was the golden age of collecting and museum fou...
Historical studies have usually separated collecting in the fine arts, where the focus is upon conno...
La République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des ...
The collections of the president at the Parliament of Brittany, Christophe-Paul de Robien (1698-1756...
Les historiens et les scientifiques ont écrit sur divers aspects de l’histoire du Muséum d’Histoire ...
Comment collectionne-t-on dans la province française au XVIIIe siècle ? L étude de la biographie et ...
République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des sci...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
De la Renaissance au XVIIIe siècle a lieu un bouleversement majeur qui est la progressive diminution...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
The paper describes different types of collections known in the West : treasuries which are the only...
During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confisca...
Cabinets of curiosities borned in XVIe century. Their history is complexed and bad known. Until XIXe...
République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des sci...
At the beginning of the 19th century, collectors were antique-loving, erudite aristocrats. Later, th...
In Europe, the second half of the Nineteenth Century was the golden age of collecting and museum fou...
Historical studies have usually separated collecting in the fine arts, where the focus is upon conno...
La République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des ...
The collections of the president at the Parliament of Brittany, Christophe-Paul de Robien (1698-1756...
Les historiens et les scientifiques ont écrit sur divers aspects de l’histoire du Muséum d’Histoire ...
Comment collectionne-t-on dans la province française au XVIIIe siècle ? L étude de la biographie et ...
République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des sci...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
De la Renaissance au XVIIIe siècle a lieu un bouleversement majeur qui est la progressive diminution...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
The paper describes different types of collections known in the West : treasuries which are the only...