Featured on PDR in the collection Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
The German polymath and Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher had a lifelong fascination with sound and devoted two books to the subject: Musurgia Universalis (1650), on the theoretical (and theological) aspects, and Phonurgia Nova (1673), on the science of acoustics and its practical applications. It's no surprise then to learn that his famed museum at Rome's Collegio Romano boasted— in addition to “vomiting statues”, ghost-conjuring mirrors, and other curious wonders — a vast and diverse collection of musical instruments.
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"Prospect of the Room called the Harmonic Gallery in the Palace of the Lords Verospi in Rome, in which there are many sound instruments, crafted with prodigious skill by Michele Todino."
Artist
Date
1722
From
Gabinetto Armonico pieno d’istromenti sonori
