"Cosas Extraordinarias": America in Early Modern Royal Spanish Collections

Author(s): Tom Cummins

Year: 2018

Summary

This talk concentrates on objects from America placed in the Palacio Real in Madrid and the Escorial. They form various parts of several types of collections that in recognizing the heterodoxy of their appearance in display different contexts dispel the overarching notion of the cabinets of curiosity that predominates in histories of collections for this period.

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"Cosas Extraordinarias": America in Early Modern Royal Spanish Collections. Tom Cummins. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444587)

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Keywords

General
Colonialism

Geographic Keywords
Europe

Spatial Coverage

min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 21898