Systematization: how the Habsburg art collections came to form the basis of modern museums

The Imperial Library and Chamber of Rarities, 1711, after Edward Brown: *Durch Niederland, Teutschland … gethane … sond. Reisen*, Nuremberg 1711

 

Ferdinand Storffer: The Black Cabinet from the painted pictorial inventory of the Imperial Collections in Vienna, c. 1730

 

Ferdinand Storffer: The Black Cabinet from the painted pictorial inventory of the Imperial Collections in Vienna, c. 1730

 

Ferdinand Storffer: The Black Cabinet from the painted pictorial inventory of the Imperial Collections in Vienna, c. 1730

 

Feather headdress, c. 1520