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Note to Users NOTE TO USERS This reproduction is the best copy available. ® UMI The Kunstkammer Object in Seventeenth-Century Salzburg: A Case Study, Early Modern Collections, Transformation and Materiality Sarah Mitchell Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University, Montreal February 2005 A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfilIment ofthe requirements ofthe degree of Masters of Arts. © Sarah Mitchell 2005 Library and Bibliothèque et 1+1 Archives Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de l'édition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Canada Canada Your file Votre référence ISBN: 0-494-12748-1 Our file Notre référence ISBN: 0-494-12748-1 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non­ L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library permettant à la Bibliothèque et Archives and Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par télécommunication ou par l'Internet, prêter, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des thèses partout dans loan, distribute and sell th es es le monde, à des fins commerciales ou autres, worldwide, for commercial or non­ sur support microforme, papier, électronique commercial purposes, in microform, et/ou autres formats. paper, electronic and/or any other formats. The author retains copyright L'auteur conserve la propriété du droit d'auteur ownership and moral rights in et des droits moraux qui protège cette thèse. this thesis. Neither the thesis Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels de nor substantial extracts from it celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés ou autrement may be printed or otherwise reproduits sans son autorisation. reproduced without the author's permission. ln compliance with the Canadian Conformément à la loi canadienne Privacy Act some supporting sur la protection de la vie privée, forms may have been removed quelques formulaires secondaires from this thesis. ont été enlevés de cette thèse. While these forms may be included Bien que ces formulaires in the document page count, aient inclus dans la pagination, their removal does not represent il n'y aura aucun contenu manquant. any loss of content from the thesis. ••• Canada Table of Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................... 3 Résumé ................................................................................................................................ 4 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................. 5 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 6 Salzburg .......................................................................................................................... 8 Early Modem Collections ............................................................................................... 9 Transformation and Materiality .................................................................................... 10 Chapter 1- The Collection of the Archbishops ofSalzburg: A Case Study ...................... Il The Kunst-und Wunderkammer ofthe Archbishops ofSalzburg ................................ 12 Layout and Contents ................................................................................................. 12 History of Salzburg ....................................................................................................... 15 Building the Modem City ............................................................................................. 17 Conflict and Legacy ...................................................................................................... 23 Historiography .............................................................................................................. 25 Displaying the Sacred ................................................................................................... 28 Recollecting the Collection ........................................................................................... 31 Chapter 2- Early Modem Collections: Historiography and Frameworks ......................... 40 Part 1- Collecting ............................................................................................................... 41 Medieval Church Collections ....................................................................................... 41 Princely and Scientific Collections ............................................................................... 44 Princely Collections: The Habsburgs ....................................................................... 47 Part 11- Historiography ...................................................................................................... 52 Resemblance and the Art of Memory ........................................................................... 53 Primary Sources ............................................................................................................ 56 Modem Scholarship: Multi-Disciplinary Strategies ..................................................... 57 Museum Studies ........................................................................................................ 59 Cultures of Collecting ............................................................................................... 61 Displaying Wonder ................................................................................................... 62 Chapter 3- Reassessing Kunstkammer Materiality: Technology and Transformation ..... 67 Theoretical Sources: Pliny, Camillo, Quiccheberg ....................................................... 68 The Collection as Workshop: Tools, Technology and Development.. ......................... 73 Transformation- the Game of Nature ........................................................................ 76 Creation and Self-Representation ............................................................................. 80 Local and Exotic Objects .............................................................................................. 81 The Salzburg Collection ............................................................................................ 84 Rock Crystal .............................................................................................................. 84 Steinbockhorn ........................................................................................................... 85 The Collected Object: Transience and Permanence ..................................................... 86 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 93 Figures ............................................................................................................................. 100 Appendix ......................................................................................................................... 111 Bibliography ................................................................................................................... 118 Abstract The phenomenon of princely and scientific collections that proliferated in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has become an important focus for modem historical analysis. These collections provide a microcosm of contemporary political, economic and philosophical ideas, often characterized by geographical and cultural differences. The mid-seventeenth century Kunst- und Wunderkammer studied here, instituted by the archbishops of Salzburg, brings forward themes sometimes neglected in the literature. The archbishops' collection was part ofbroader efforts to reinvent the city of Salzburg as a representation ofboth sacred and secular authority. Strategies for significant display were derived from re1igious and imperial ritual, drawing on the potential of objects as signifiers. In this context, 1 also examine sorne ofthe debates within the literature on prince1y and scientific collections, where the study of wonder and science begins to merge in cross- disciplinary scholarship. Finally, 1 highlight the role of transformation and materiality in these collections to argue that the act of collecting objects and the act of making were imbricated in the process of se1f-definition. Within themes oftechnology and process, 1 investigate the pursuit of creating Kunstkammer objects, as well as the business oftheir display and use in diplomacy. Résumé Le développement exceptionnel des collections scientifiques et princières européennes pendant les XVIe et XVIIe siècles reste un thème populaire pour l'analyse historique moderne. Ces collections constituent un milieu riche en idées politiques, économiques et philosophiques contemporaines, et elles sont souvent caractérisées par de fortes différences géographiques et culturelles. Le cabinet d'art et de merveilles, instauré au milieu du XVIIe siècle par les archevêques de Salzbourg, s'avère une étude de cas intéressante pour certains aspects souvent négligés de la littérature. La collection des archevêques faisait partie d'un plan stratégique plus vaste qui visait à donner à la ville de Salzbourg une image d'autorité à la fois religieuse et séculaire.
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