Saint Nicolas, Remy de Gourmont; Alfred Jarry

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Remy de Gourmont; Alfred Jarry, Saint Nicolas
Remy de Gourmont; Alfred Jarry, Saint Nicolas
Remy de Gourmont , Alfred Jarry
Saint Nicolas
1895
Remy de Gourmont
1858–1915
Alfred Jarry
1873–1907
Saint Nicolas, 1895
Portfolio/Series title: L'Ymagier IV, July 1895
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: wove paper; letterpress; hand coloring; lithograph
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 355 x 310 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 0.9764 x 12 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Fund
Accession number: 1994.0032.02
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Conflicting Memories," Oct-2003, Steve Goddard From classical antiquity through the Renaissance the art of memory was taught as a means of memorizing very long textual passages. This was accomplished by associating images with parts of the text and ordering the images, usually in imagined architectural settings, so that they and the texts associated with them, could be recalled in the proper order. This image is from a late fifteenth-century book, Ars Memorandi (The Art of Memory), which gave instruction in memorizing the gospels of the four evangelists. In this case we see an aid for remembering chapters 7-12 of the Gospel of Saint Luke. Luke’s symbol, the ox, is used instead of an architectural image as the form to house the emblems of the various events to be remembered from chapters 7-12. This impression of the woodblock comes from a nineteenth-century magazine, L’Ymagier, and is incorrectly identified as an image of the antichrist.