Saint Nicolas

Remy de Gourmont, editor

1858–1915

Alfred Jarry, editor

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 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

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"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.