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Museums Midterm: People
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
02/24/2009

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Andre Malraux
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early 20th/mid 20th cent.
surrealist/novelist/artist
wrote "museum w/out walls"
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Strabo
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c. 64 BC-24 AD
Greek Stoic philosopher, historian, and geographer
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Varro
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116-27 BC
prolific writer and scholar patronized by Augustus
distinguished features of the Alexandria in a written account
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Francesco I de Medici
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FLORENCE-had a studiolo (1570-72)
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Ferante Imperato
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Dell' Historia Naturale (NAPLES)
Professional collection around 1599
was a pharmacist
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Aldrovandi
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professor of natural philosophy at the University of Bologna
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Rudolf II
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Kunstkammer in Germany
ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (1576-1612)
*alchemist! (weirdo)
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Phillip Hainhofer
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sold Kunstkranks (German cabinets) to anyone who could afford to collect them
17th cent. Germany (white cabinet)
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Charles Wilson Peale
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prominent painter and natural historian
started one of the first American, natural history museums c. 1800
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Cardinal Alessandro Albani
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late 18th cent
was actually an art dealer
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Vivant Denon
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17th-18th cent. Director of the Louvre appointed by Napoleon
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