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A cabinet painting is a small painting, typically no larger than about two feet in either dimension, but often much smaller. The term is especially used of paintings that show full-length figures at a small scale, as opposed to say a head painted nearly life-size, and that are painted very precisely, with a great degree of "finish". From the fifteenth century onwards wealthy collectors of art would keep such paintings in a relatively small and private room (often very small indeed, even in a very large house), to which only those with whom they were on especially inimate terms would be admitted. The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. ...
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This room might be used as a study or office, or just a sitting room. Heating the main rooms in large palaces or mansions in the winter was difficult, and small rooms were more comfortable. They also offered more privacy from servants or other household members or visitors. Typically such a room would be for the use of a single individual, so that a house might have at least two (his and hers) and often more. Names varied: cabinet, closet, study (from the Italian studiolo), office and others.
 Saint George Fighting the Dragon by Raphael, Louvre, 31×27 cm Later such paintings might be housed in a display case, which might also be called a cabinet, but the term cabinet arose from the name (originally in Italian) of a room, not a piece of furniture. Other small precious objects, including miniature paintings, "curiosities" of all sorts (see cabinet of curiosities), old master prints, books, small sculptures and so on, might also be in the room. This article is about the museum: for building history, see Palais du Louvre, for higher education, see École du Louvre. ...
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Musei Wormiani Historia, the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worms cabinet of curiosities. ...
The term Old Master Print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). ...
There is a rare surviving cabinet with its contents probably little changed since the early eighteenth century at Ham House, Richmond outside London. It is less than ten feet square, and leads off from the Long Gallery, which is well over a hundred feet long by about twenty wide, giving a rather startling change in scale and atmosphere. As is often the case, it has an excellent view of the front entrance to the house, so that comings and going can be observed. Most surving large houses or palaces, especially from before 1700, have such rooms, but they are very often not displayed to visitors. Ham House, situated beside the River Thames, just to the south of Richmond, in the United Kingdom, is claimed by its present owners, the National Trust, to be unique in Europe as the most complete survival of 17th century fashion and power. It was built in 1610 for Sir Thomas...
Small paintings have been produced at all periods of Western art, but some periods and artists are especially noticeable for them. Raphael produced many cabinet paintings, and all the paintings of the important German artist Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) could be so described. The works of these two were much copied. The Dutch artists of the seventeenth century had an enormous output of small paintings. The painters of the Leiden School were especially noted "fijnschilders" - that is "fine painters" producing highly finished small works. Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. ...
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