As part of the exhibition Concept and Encounter: The World around 1600, the Kupferstich-Kabinett is providing an insight into its inexhaustible holdings in a series of special exhibitions in the studiolo. Reflecting the broad spectrum of the collection, works dating from the Middle Ages to the present day are being shown for a limited time period. The first such exhibition presents an extraordinary series of engravings – the Nova Reperta. In these works, the Flemish painter and draughtsman Jan van der Straet (1523–1605) represented nineteen inventions of the early modern period, which he regarded as particularly important for the age in which he lived. These include spectacles, stirrups and silkworm breeding as well as book printing, engraving and clock making. One picture is also devoted to the discovery of America, which expanded the limits of the known world.