Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and Its 'Book and Art Room' Of 1779 : A Key Moment in the History of a Learned Institution.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction and Background -- Chapter 1 Purpose and Structure of the Book -- 1 Purpose and Structure of the Book -- 2 Teyler's Foundation as a Case Study in a Re-Reading of the History of Science -- 3 Teyler's Foundation between the Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts -- 4 Teyler's in an International Perspective -- Chapter 2 Teyler's Foundation and the Two Societies: Emergence and Development up to c. 1800 -- 1 Pieter Teyler in Haarlem -- 2 Pieter Teyler's Motivation and His Choice of Directors -- 3 The Directors -- 4 The Theological Society -- 5 The Competitions of the Theological Society -- 6 The Second Society -- 7 The Competitions of the Second Society -- 8 The Custodian of the Foundation House and Keeper of the Art Collections -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 A Museum within the Foundation, 1779-2020 -- 1 The Oval Room as a Cuckoo's Egg? -- 2 Reorganization, Professionalization and Research -- 3 A Museum of a Museum -- 4 Changing Relations between the Societies and the Museum -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 2 Teyler's as a Case in a Re-Reading of the History of Science -- Chapter 4 'The World We Have Lost': In Praise of a Comprehensive Concept of Science and Scholarship -- 1 The 'Classical' View -- 2 Towards a Conceptual History of Science and Knowledge -- 3 Renewing the Bond between the Sciences and the Humanities -- Chapter 5 The First Museum in the Netherlands? The Establishment of Teyler's Oval Room in Historical Perspective (c. 1600- 1800) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Museums and the History of Collecting -- 3 Scientific Culture in Haarlem -- 4 The Legacy of Pieter Teyler -- 5 Texts, Images, Objects, Models -- 6 Conclusion.

Chapter 6 How to Collect Minerals, Rocks and Fossils for a Museum: The International Networks of Martinus van Marum (1750- 1837) -- 1 The World behind the Geological Collections in the Oval Room1 -- 2 Archival Sources for a Reconstruction -- 3 Acquisitions by Auctions, Correspondence and Exchange -- 4 Scientific, Religious and Decorative Aspects -- 5 Early Mineral and Paleontological Collections in the Netherlands -- 6 Acquisition by Travelling -- 7 How to Subdivide and Classify the Collection -- 8 What Handwritten Labels Can Tell Us -- 9 Economic Aspects of Geological Collections -- 10 A New Trend: Rocks Instead of Minerals -- 11 Promoting Knowledge by Lectures -- 12 Religious Aspects of the Geological Collections -- 13 Conclusion -- Part 3 Teyler's between the Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts -- Chapter 7 'Truth-to-Nature' in the Museum? Wybrand Hendriks, Martinus van Marum and the 'Reasoned Image' -- 1 Introduction: an Unscientific Image -- 2 Hendriks, Van Marum and Teyler's Museum -- 3 Hendriks' Scientific Œuvre: an Overview -- 4 The 'Reasoned Image' -- 5 'Truth-to-Nature' in the Museum? -- 6 'To Imitate Nature in Art Precisely' -- 7 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 8 An Asset to Art. The Purchase of Italian Drawings by Teyler's Foundation in 1790 and the Context of Art Theory in the Netherlands -- 1 Willem Anne Lestevenon -- 2 Motives for the Purchase of the Drawings -- 3 Interest in the Acquisition -- 4 Interest in Italian Art in the Netherlands -- 5 Van Eynden (1787) and Kikkert (1809) -- 6 Lestevenon and Van Eynden's Prize Essay -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 9 Collecting and Displaying Art in Teyler's Museum, 1778-1885: The Usefulness of Drawings, Prints and Contemporary Paintings, and the Development of Public Access -- 1 Art as a Useful Element -- 2 Limited Accessibility of the Drawings Collection.

3 Paintings Begin to Be Collected -- 4 From Secretiveness to Accessibility -- Part 4 Teyler's in an International Perspective -- Chapter 10 Visiting Haarlem: August Hermann Niemeyer, the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities at the Halle Orphanage, and Teyler's Museum -- 1 The Diversity of the Collections in the Francke Foundations: 'to Make the Visitors Familiar with the School Institutions and Aware of God's Work' -- 2 Van Marum in Halle: 'Bad Architecture and Untidiness' -- 3 Niemeyer in Haarlem: 'Enough Here to Captivate the Traveller'29 -- 4 Note, Remember, Borrow, Publish: Work on the Text -- 5 Conclusions and Further Areas of Research -- Chapter 11 The Rise of the Modern Romantic Concept of Art and the Art Museum -- 1 The Aesthetic Revolution -- 2 Moritz -- 3 Quatremère de Quincy -- 4 Schiller -- 5 In Holland -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Copenhagen -- Dublin -- Haarlem -- Halle -- Washington, D.C. -- Publications -- Websites -- Photo Credits -- Index.

Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and its 'Book and Art Room' of 1779, edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the first time this remarkable institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments.

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