{"id":203,"date":"2015-02-26T01:58:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=203"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:50:41","slug":"the-theater-of-nature-or-curiosity-filled-the-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/the-theater-of-nature-or-curiosity-filled-the-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theater of Nature or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Through poetry, illustration, and dynamic construction, Angela Lorenz&#8217;s artist book explores the peculiar history of the Renaissance-era Cabinet of Curiosity.  Categorized and arranged collections of natural, anthropological, geological, historic, and religious items, cabinets of curiosities were the earliest versions of museums in Europe.  Often conflating myth and theology with science and specimen in the collections, the halls typically included objects related to beasts such as the unicorn. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"1261\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's research sketch from The Theater of Nature or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet View Artist's research sketch from The Theater of Nature or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet in the Brown Digital Repository Angela Lorenz Bologna, Italy: Novelties of Purpose, a division of Angela Lorenz Artists Books, 1999 Special Collections, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design\" class=\"wp-image-304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-143x300.jpg 143w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-487x1024.jpg 487w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-100x210.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-150x315.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-200x420.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-300x631.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003481-450x946.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artist&#8217;s research sketch from <em>The Theater of Nature or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:403386\/\">View Artist&#8217;s research sketch from <em>The Theater of Nature or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet<\/em> in the Brown Digital Repository<\/a><br>Angela Lorenz<br>Bologna, Italy: Novelties of Purpose, a division of Angela Lorenz Artists Books, 1999<br>Special Collections, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through poetry, illustration, and dynamic construction, Angela Lorenz&#8217;s artist book explores the peculiar history of the Renaissance-era Cabinet of Curiosity. Categorized and arranged collections of natural, anthropological, geological, historic, and religious items, cabinets of curiosities were the earliest versions of museums in Europe. Often conflating myth and theology with science and specimen in the collections, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/the-theater-of-nature-or-curiosity-filled-the-cabinet\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Theater of Nature or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}