"cabinet" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall space.
- And the library that Charles Follen McKim designed in 1902 as an annex to the Morgan home was tailored to them: it's a cross between a bank vault and a wonder cabinet.
- By the 1790s instrumental music had been written for concert performance for several centuries; paintings and other objects, including curiosities in "wonder cabinets," had been exhibited in collections even longer.
- Botanical gardens were like living wonder cabinets, and they mixed aesthetic appreciation with visions of Eden and the dream of a walled-in paradise - of wilderness tamed, made orderly and useful.
- The age of wonder cabinets gave way to the age of Descartes.
- Baroque wonder cabinets were meant to encapsulate the universe in microcosm.
- In other words, the early-modern wonder cabinet is no mere period piece, which is why the first half of "Devices of Wonder" contains a fully deployed and retrofitted 17th-century German Wunderkabinett.
- Museums grew out of the old wonder cabinets.
- The show simulates a Wunderkammer, a darkened wonder cabinet of the 17th or 18th century.
- But the spirit of the wonder cabinets never altogether died.
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