Thirty Statues

Thirty Statues

Author: Scott Gosnell

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-06-19

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781074966355

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Written in 1591 and published posthumously, Bruno's Lamps of the Thirty Statues presents an advanced example of the memory palace technique, He presents a periodic table or encyclopedia of classical philosophy, representing thirty abstract ideas through images taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. These images are then given attributes which can be combined and manipulated to address fundamental arguments and isues of philosophical interest. At the same time, he develops a theogony and a categorization scheme for substances and concepts through the framework of the scale of nature and the scale of predicates or ideas. First English Translation.


Saints, Statues, and Stories

Saints, Statues, and Stories

Author: James S. Griffith

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0816539618

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. . . we move to the town of Aconchi on the Río Sonora, where the mission church once contained a life-sized crucifix with a black corpus, known both as Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas . . . and El Cristo Negro de Aconchi . . . So describes well-known and beloved folklorist James S. Griffith as he takes us back through the decades to a town in northern Sonora where a statue is saved—and in so doing, a community is saved as well. In Saints, Statues, and Stories Griffith shares stories of nearly sixty years of traveling through Sonora. As we have come to expect through these journeys, “Big Jim”—as he is affectionately known by many—offers nothing less than the living traditions of Catholic communities. Themes of saints as agents of protection or community action are common throughout Sonora: a saint coming out of the church to protect the village, a statue having a say in where it resides and paying social calls to other communities, or a beloved image rescued from destruction and then revered on a private altar. A patron saint saves a village from outside attackers in one story—a story that has at least ten parallels in Sonora’s former mission communities. Details may vary, but the general narrative remains the same: when hostile nonbelievers attack the village, the patron saint of the church foils them. Griffith uncovers the meanings behind the devotional uses of religious art from a variety of perspectives—from artist to audience, preservationist to community member. The religious artworks transcend art objects, Griffith believes, and function as ways of communicating between this world and the next. Setting the stage with a brief geography, Griffith introduces us to roadside shrines, artists, fiestas, saints, and miracles. Full-color images add to the pleasure of this delightful journey through the churches and towns of Sonora.


Art Of Memory

Art Of Memory

Author: F A Yates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1136353615

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First Published in 1999. This title is the third volume in the ten-volume set titled the Selected Works of Frances Yates. Greyscale illustrations and figures are included throughout - alongside the related descriptive work where applicable. The art in this volume seeks to memorise through a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on memory. It has usually been classed as 'mnemotechnics', which appears an unimportant branch of human activity. However, the author discusses in this title that the manipulation of images in memory must always, to some extent, involve the psyche.


Thirty Seals & the Seal of Seals

Thirty Seals & the Seal of Seals

Author: Giordano Bruno

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781540771438

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Giordano Bruno's third work on the Art of Memory or memory palace consists of a set of seals, which represent data structures for arranging and developing memory images and for processing mental representations and propositions. In this work, he fully combines for the first time both the retrospective Art of Memory and the prospective art of logic and judgment originally developed by Ramon Llull. Appended to this is the Seal of Seals, a discussion of psychological dynamics from a Neoplatonic viewpoint.


Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad

Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad

Author: Frances A. Yates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1317973798

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First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964.


The Art of Memory

The Art of Memory

Author: Frances A Yates

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1448104130

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This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance. Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.


Joyful in Thebes

Joyful in Thebes

Author: Kathlyn M. Cooney

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1937040410

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An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes, a Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies, which often present unpublished material or new interpretations of specific issues in Egyptian history, literature, and art history, well reflect the broad research interests of the honoree. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, the volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Bryan's publications through 2015.