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SUMMARY:The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer - Amelia Hutchinson (F
 aculty of History)
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CONTACT:Tom Banbury
DESCRIPTION:In 1617\, the prolific Augsburg merchant\, art agent\, and dip
 lomat Philipp Hainhofer wrote to his longstanding patron\, Duke Philipp II
  of Pomerania-Stettin. He was reporting great news. The duke's vast and or
 nately furnished cabinet of curiosities was finally finished after seven y
 ears. But now Hainhofer faced the unenviable task of explaining the high c
 osts and lengthy production time. The eloquent\, art-loving broker was une
 rring. He had succeeded in making 'something princely and prestigious for 
 such an art-savvy and art-loving prince'\, to which other princely cabinet
 s were 'of no comparison'. Covered in cosmic iconography\, filled with aff
 ective\, powerful materials\, and housing a distinct pharmaceutical sectio
 n\, the cabinet was intimately linked to the body: the body of its eventua
 l owners\; of the artisans who made it\; and of the merchant who compiled 
 it.\n\nThis paper focuses on the art cabinets produced by Philipp Hainhofe
 r (1578–1647)\, whose ingenious and rare creations for princely clientel
 e helped foster his reputation as an important cultural broker and diploma
 t during the first half of the seventeenth century. By examining notions o
 f the macrocosmic and microcosmic universe and the perceived active proper
 ties of materials\, this paper explores how bodily entanglements with mate
 rials influenced decision-making in the space of the cabinet. It argues th
 at Hainhofer's own experience of corporeal health shaped the ways in which
  his cabinets came into being\, connecting the bodies of geographically\, 
 socially and confessionally disparate actors. By directing attention towar
 ds health\, sensation\, and medicine\, the material basis of the Pomerania
 n Cabinet is brought into sharp relief.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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