Bath’s Holburne museum to unveil ‘art chamber’ of Renaissance masterpieces | Museums
Under the Georgian city of Bath, the treasury of a sparkling Renaissance masterpieces created for kings, queens, church leaders and scientists is about to be explained.
Renaissance Kunstkammer – Based on the idea of a Bodrum Room – Bodrum Room Holburne Museum It is full of elegant silver items, pictures, bronze and ceramic pieces.
The model of an amazing silver ship is a rare mechanical celestial sphere and VIII. It contains a bronze ship that belongs to Henry.
“It is great here to have the pieces you see in places like Met in New York or British Museum,” he said. Chris Stephens, Holburne Director.
The treasures have been gathered by the Schroder family who have been leaning to Holburne for at least 20 years.
A gallery of 2 million pounds It was composed of two store rooms to show objects that have not been brought together anywhere before.
The relationship between Holburne and Schroders began about five years ago when the family’s art curator wondered if he wanted to borrow a few of the family’s Renaissance pictures.
Stephens bravely asked if they could borrow them all. “I thought they said no, but they were very happy and we turned my office into a gallery for them.”
The family later presented other Renaissance treasures, and the idea of creating Bath’s own Kunstkammer emerged.
Stephens said: “The key decision was not to separate different forms of art, but to bring everything together. This created the sense of Renaissance, Kunstkammer, the idea of rich people from all over the world.”
Among the prominent features of the collection, Hesse-Kassel, one of the oldest modern astronomers in the 16th century, IV.
When he was injured, the world returned to show the position of the constellations. Stephens, like the practices of the night sky, telling which stars you look at, ”Stephens said. “It was made in the 1570s. It is great to have this sensitivity and complexity level and to have many active points.”
Silver Ship – Schwarzenberg Nef – was created in about 1580. A jug or jug - a jug or jug - can be filled with a beverage through a hole hidden in the deck. “Miracle, Step Stephens said, the weight of a crew member and details such as coat of arms along with a large chicken on a plate of the captain’s cabin.
VIII. It is not certain that Henry deals with the bronze glass that appears in another cabinet, but his signs describes such a ship with the same weight.
Most of the objects gathered at the end of the 19th century and in the early 20th century. It is organized in various houses and offices owned by members of the Schroder family.
The only collection that can be compared with Bath’s new Kunstkammer, Stephens, Waddesdon Bequest in British MuseumA collection of Renaissance treasures collected by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. “Really exciting, seeing that all these objects are brought together in one place. Really extraordinary.”
