这本开启了艺术和好奇心橱柜研究的先锋书首次有了英文版本。

本书是朱利叶斯·冯·施洛瑟（Julius von Schlosser）在艺术和收藏史上的一部开创性著作。最初于1908年以德语出版，是**部将十六和十七世纪的奇珍异宝柜解释为现代博物馆前身的研究，将它们追溯到希腊罗马时期的收藏史中。在其比较方法和广泛的地理范围内，施洛瑟的书为艺术和物质文化研究引入了跨学科和全球视角，为博物馆研究和收藏史奠定了基础。施洛瑟是奥地利的教授、策展人、博物馆馆长，也是维也纳艺术史学派的领军人物，他的工作直到现在才取得他同时代人的突出地位。

在这个雄辩的、有见地的译本之前，有托马斯·达科斯塔·考夫曼的实质性介绍。本书追溯了施洛瑟的传记和二十世纪初在维也纳的知识形成，将他的作品与同时代人的作品联系起来，并在此过程中提供了大量的见解。

For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English.

Julius von Schlosser's Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser's book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now.

This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser's biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.