Cabinet of Curiosity
Abigail Lanza
22" x 14" x 8"
Foam board, wood, glass, air-dry clay, thread, fabric
My Cabinet is based on The Habsburg family’s legacy, specifically, Prince Rudolf of Habsburg. Prince Rudolf of Habsburg would later start collecting arts and artifacts in his cabinet of curiosities like Kunstkammer, and Wunderkammer. Fewer pieces of furniture and more metaphysical manifestos. These pieces I have made here are based on Diana and Actaeon by Bartholomäus Spranger and El Greco's Burial of the Count Orgaz, collected by Price Rudolf of Habsburg. The wooden-like structure is a piece based off of Burial of the Count Orgaz. In this painting, El Greco painted himself in the painting as he looks into the sky his eyes swelled with tears as if he was looking to be saved. The fluid anatomical figure is made out of air-dry clay and resembles the figures drawn in Diana and Actaeon. Along with this painting, Prince Rudolf collected the Paracelsian Zenexton, an amulet enclosed in a bejeweled gold case that contained a cake made of toads, menstrual blood, white arsenic, orpiment, dittany, roots, pearls, coral, and Eastern emeralds, according to the best physicians was the recipe for the plague it's the antidote and the cure. The shards of red and green glass on this figure represent the menstrual blood and other ingredients kept in this momento. The top of the cabinet was cut and made to look crown-like along with the adorning glass to represent his royal status.
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