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Art in the Age of Discovery

Important names and terms

· Academia, studiolo, museo, galleria

· Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer

· Naturalia, artificialia, scientifica, exotica, mirabilia

· Ferrante Imperato, Ulisse Aldrovandi

Additional Images

· Enea Vico, The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, 1550

· Studiolo of Francesco I de’ Medici, Palazzo Vecchio, 1570-71

· Giorgio Vasari, Perseus, 1570-71

· Alessandro Allori, Pearl Fishers, 1570-71

· Joannes Stradanus, The Alchemists, 1570

· Giorgio Vasari, Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent, before 1574

· Cabinet of curiosities of Ferrante Imperato, 1599

· Saltcellar, Sapi-Portuguese ivory, 15th–16th century

· Mask, Mixtec-Puebla Culture, Rome, Museo Pignorini

· Green stone mask, Florence, Museo degli Argenti

· Codex Borgia, Mixtec Culture, Rome, Vatican Apostolic Library

· Amantecatl at work, illustrations from the Florentine Codex, fol. 371v-375 r.

· Ludovico Buti, Frescoes of the former armoury, Galleria degli Uffizi, 1586

Additional Resources

· Visit the Metropolitan Museum’s websites Europe and the Age of Exploration and Collecting for the Kunstkammer