Kate Robinson's Visualization of Giulio Camillo's Theater of Memory

2009
The image above is inspired by the 'Theatre' of the Italian philosopher, Giulio Camillo, described in his book 'L'idea del Teatro' (Florence 1550).

"The image above is inspired by the 'Theatre' of the Italian philosopher, Giulio Camillo, described in his book 'L'idea del Teatro' (Florence 1550). Rather than bricks and mortar, Camillo's Theatre is best imagined as an internal idea which corresponds to the outer cosmos, a celestial vehicle connecting nature and man. In 'L'idea del Teatro' Camillo describes hundreds of images all of which are placed inside the 'Theatre'. The images are of myths, history, the stars and the planets and their meaning depends on their position in the Theatre" (Kate Robinson)

In 2009 artist Kate Robinson posted a video on YouTube entitled "The Idea for the Theatre." When I found this in October 2020 other information about the video and still images associated with it was posted on her website.

Possibly prior to creating that film Robinson issued abook entitled, A Search for the Source of the Whirlpool of Artifice: The Cosmology of Giulio Camillo (2006). 

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