These Cupboards Don’t Open

A Renaissance duke’s study uses real wood to make impossible cupboards. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Door That Cannot Open 0:49 The Duke in His Imagined Collection 1:23 How the Cupboard Gains Depth 2:08 Making Pictures From Pieces of Wood 3:10 The Strange Ring on the Bench 3:52 When a Repair Got the Light Wrong 4:27 How a Room Reached New York 5:12 The Two Things the Wall Shows Us SOURCES Met: Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198556 Raggio and Wilmering: The Liberal Arts Studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, 1996 https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/gubbio-studiolo-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-bulletin-v-53-no-4-spring-1996 Wilmering: Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation, vol.2, 1999 https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/the-gubbio-studiolo-and-its-conservation-vol-2-italian-renaissance-intarsia-and-the-conservation-o Met: On the Gubbio Studiolo https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/points-of-view-gubbio-studiolo Met object metadata https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/198556 Met: Image and Data Resources https://www.metmuseum.org/policies/image-resources IMAGE CREDITS Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: artwork-master.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-01.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-02.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-03.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-04.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-06.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-07.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-08.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-09.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, c.1478–82. Design associated with Francesco di Giorgio Martini; workshop of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1939, 39.153. CC0 Open Access images. File: met-detail-10.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Original script and explanatory guides by The Art Detail. Authentic registered reproductions; guides are labelled. Licensed synthetic narration: Andrew Dragon HD Latest. The Art Detail · Small details. Remarkable stories.