The great theatre of creative thought: the Inscriptiones vel tituli theatri amplissimi ... (1565) by Samuel von Quiccheberg

Abstract

Samuel von Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones vel tituli theatri amplissimi (1565) is a manual that describes an ideal museum, with instructions on how to assemble an encyclopaedic collection. Inscriptiones is the first theoretical text in museology. On close examination it reveals itself to be a vast repository of cinquecento culture, reflecting many contemporary intellectual currents. This essay analyzes the text and shows how certain cultural elements, such as Ramism, the art of rhetoric and memory influenced Quiccheberg. It further studies how he incorporated these cultural elements in the arrangement of the objects and in the spatial composition of his museum-theatre.

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