work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3395,Memory Theater,"Reading Albano, Caterina. ""Seeing the Mind: Considerations on Visual Metaphors of the Mind in Western Thought (16th-18th Centuries)."" Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 47.12 (2005): 843-48. Albano is quoting from Francis Yates' Art of Memory. ",2006-05-11 00:00:00 UTC,"[The theater of the mind is] ""marked with many images, and full of little boxes""
""The work is of wood, marked with many images, and full of little boxes; there are various orders and grades in it. He gives a place to each individual figure and ornament, and he showed me such a mass of papers that, though I always heard that Cicero was the fountain of richest eloquence, scarcely would I have thought that [...] so many volumes could be pieced together out of his writings.""",2006-10-30,8682,Actually written about a Memory Theatre that Camillo was building. The description is from a letter of Erasmus. -PNH,"[The theater of the mind is] ""marked with many images, and full of little boxes""",Theater,2009-09-14 19:33:43 UTC,""
7403,"","Reading M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (London: Oxford UP, 1953), 32.",2013-06-06 18:16:23 UTC,"The mind of the painter should be like a mirror which always takes the colour of the thing that it reflects and which is filled by as many images as there are things placed before it. Knowing therefore that you cannot be a good master unless you have a universal power of representing by your art all the varieties of the forms which nature produces,--which indeed you will not know how to do unless you see them and retain them in your mind,--look to it, O Painter, that when you go into the fields you give your attention to the various objects and look carefully in turn first at one thing and then at another, making a bundle of different things selected and chosen from among those of less value. And do not after the manner of some painters who when tired by imaginative work, lay aside their task and take exercise by walking in order to find relaxation, keeping, however, such weariness of mind as prevents them either seeing or being conscious of different objects; so that often when meeting friends or relatives, and being saluted by them, although they may see and hear them they know them no more than if they had met only so much air.
(MS. 2038, Bib. Nat. 2 r.)",,20449,"","""The mind of the painter should be like a mirror which always takes the colour of the thing that it reflects and which is filled by as many images as there are things placed before it.""","",2013-06-06 18:16:23 UTC,"
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