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Redazionale Feudi

Vino e Wunderkammer
Ella Capaldo
Pietro Mercogliano

Vino e Wunderkammer

Pietro Mercogliano

Locked inside the cabinets and display cases of a Wunderkammer, or Cabinet of Curiosities, the world’s treasures whisper of a vanished age: a time when narwhal tusks, now skillfully mounted inside a Renaissance vitrine, cut through the icy waves of northern seas as a living appendage; when coral, now the branching crown of a monstrance of lapis lazuli and enamel, spread its growing arms across the seabed of southern waters; when agates and malachites lay encased in the hard earth; when an ivory fan fluttered in the ivory hands of a lovely matron.