KUNSTKAMER (n. f.)

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Dient desen tot antwoord; dat lieden van redelicke middelen haere Konst-liefde seer wel oeffenen konnen, sonder daer door op groote kosten ghejaeght te worden; aenghesien de maghtighe en Rijcke lief-hebbers haere Konst-kamers ende Galerijen niet alleen tot haer eyghen vermaeck maer oock tot vermaeck van andere vercieren, achtende haere kosten welbestedet sijn allse haere Huysen door den daghenlickschen toeloop der Konst-lievers Krielen.

[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] This serves as an answer; that persons of reasonable means can practice their Love of Art very well, without being put to great expenses; seen that the powerful and rich Amateurs do not only embellish their 'Kunst-kamers' and Galleries for their own entertainment, but also for the entertainment of others, regarding their expenses well spent when their Houses swarm by the daily flood of Art-lovers.

This section is not available in the first Latin edition of 1637, it is however included in the 1694 editions. [MO]

term translated by / in JUNIUS, Franciscus, The Painting of the Ancients, in Three Bookes : declaring by Historicall Observations and Examples, the Beginning, Progresse, and Consummation of that most Noble Art. And how those Ancient Artificers attained to their still so much admired Excellencie. Written first in latine by Franciscus Junius, F. F. And now by him englished, with some Additions and Alterations, trad. par JUNIUS, Franciscus, London, Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1638., p. 81

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SPECTATEUR → amateur, connaisseur, curieux