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- Title
Illusion as ingenuityDutch perspective boxes in the Royal Danish Kunstkammer’s ‘Perspective Chamber’.
- Authors
Spencer, Justina
- Abstract
Five Dutch perspective boxes were once housed in the ‘Perspective Chamber’ of the Royal Danish Kunstkammer , a room devoted to illusionistic painting and inaugurated in the seventeenth century. Perspective boxes were created using a complicated arrangement of perspectival geometry, specific examples of which can be gleaned from contemporaneous treatises on the subject. As the first room visitors entered from the floor below, the Perspective Chamber, and hence perspective boxes, acted as showpieces for the esteem and glory of the sovereign, for they inferred that the ruling élite was mindful of the optical knowledge required to create such artful deceptions.
- Subjects
DENMARK; PAINTING collecting; ART collecting; CABINETS of curiosities; DE Thurah, Lauritz; ART museums
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/fhx024