Curiosities - Stamp Booklet

Title: A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES - From the Renaissance, the World is understood in a scientific way. The cabinets of curiosities are in a way the outline of the museums, museums and botanical gardens to come. Heterogeneous objects are gathered there: botanical plates, shells, minerals rub shoulders with paintings, drawings, engravings, compasses, often exotic naturalized animals, works of art. From the New World discovered, amazing objects are brought back to examine and show. / Art, Works of art, Astronomy, Mineralogy, Sciences, ..Em.R