{"product_id":"teyler-s-foundation-in-haarlem-and-its-book-and-art-room-of-1779-a-key-moment-in-the-history-of-a-learned-institution-9789004440999","title":"Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and Its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779: A Key Moment in the History of a Learned Institution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeyler’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 institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments. The key moment was the decision in 1779 to give a free interpretation to the testament of its founder, the Mennonite entrepreneur Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778): stimulated by the naturalist Martinus van Marum, the Foundation’s board decided to build an impressive museum room and to establish a natural science collection. The institution thus entered an era in which older scientific and collecting traditions engaged with new developments towards a research institution and a public museum of natural history, physics and art.     Contributors: Ellinoor S. Bergvelt, Terry van Druten, Arnold Heumakers, Eric Jorink, Paul Knolle, Debora Meijers, Wijnand Mijnhardt, Bert Sliggers, Koenraad Vos, and Holger Zaunstöck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Illustrations  Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors    PART 1  Introduction and Background    1 Purpose and Structure of the Book    Debora J. Meijers and Ellinoor S. Bergvelt    2 Teyler’s Foundation and the Two Societies: Emergence and Development up to c. 1800    Debora J. Meijers    3 A Museum within the Foundation, 1779–2020    Debora J. Meijers    PART 2  Teyler’s as a Case in a Re-reading of the History of Science    4 ‘The World We Have Lost’: In Praise of a Comprehensive Ideal of Science and Scholarship    Wijnand W. Mijnhardt    5 The First Museum in the Netherlands? The Establishment of Teyler’s Oval Room in Historical Perspective (c. 1600–1800)    Eric Jorink    6 How to Collect Minerals, Rocks and Fossils for a Museum: The International Networks of Martinus van Marum (1750–1837)    Bert Sliggers    PART 3  Teyler’s between the Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts    7 ‘Truth-to-Nature’ in the Museum? Wybrand Hendriks, Martinus van Marum and the ‘Reasoned Image’    Koenraad Vos    8 An Asset to Art. The Purchase of Italian Old Master Drawings from the Odescalchi Collection in Rome by Teyler’s Foundation in 1790: Motivation, Function, and the Context of Art Theory in the Netherlands    Paul Knolle    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    Terry van Druten    PART 4  Teyler’s in an International Perspective    10 Visiting Haarlem: August Hermann Niemeyer, the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities at the Halle Orphanage, and Teyler’s Museum    Holger Zaunstöck    11 The Rise of the Modern Romantic Concept of Art and the Art Museum    Arnold Heumakers    Bibliography  Photo Credits  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210809532759,"sku":"9789004440999","price":128.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teyler-s-foundation-in-haarlem-and-its-book-and-art-room-of-1779-a-key-moment-in-the-history-of-a-learned-institution-9789004440999","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}