collections

Marble relief with the procession of Bacchus. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
The Farnese Collection is Back in Rome

Artistic patronage did not flee Rome following its traumatic sack by mutinous Spanish and German soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire in 1527. Seven years later, Alessandro Farnese (…

Frans Francken the Younger, Kunst- und Raritätenkammer (Chamber of Art and Curiosities), 1636. Oil on panel.
The Cabinet of Curiosities & Colonialism
Although such collections were kept by a wide range of groups and individuals—from Tsars to churches and apothecaries to scientific academies—a new wave of scholars have taken particular interest in…