Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)

In 1617 the alchemist, counselor and court physician to the then recently deceased Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) published his Atalanta Fugiens (Atalanta fleeing). The book fits into the general category of an 'alchemical emblem book', very popular in the day: it contains 50 bea...

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Autor principal: Johann F. W. Hasler
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad de Los Andes 2011
Materias:
Sociología
Atalanta Fugiens
Michael Maier
Historical Instances of Performance
Alchemical Meditation
Emblem Books
Early Multimedia
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http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-003&d=81518565011oai
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Atalanta Fugiens
Michael Maier
Historical Instances of Performance
Alchemical Meditation
Emblem Books
Early Multimedia
spellingShingle Sociología
Atalanta Fugiens
Michael Maier
Historical Instances of Performance
Alchemical Meditation
Emblem Books
Early Multimedia
Johann F. W. Hasler
Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
topic_facet Sociología
Atalanta Fugiens
Michael Maier
Historical Instances of Performance
Alchemical Meditation
Emblem Books
Early Multimedia
description In 1617 the alchemist, counselor and court physician to the then recently deceased Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) published his Atalanta Fugiens (Atalanta fleeing). The book fits into the general category of an 'alchemical emblem book', very popular in the day: it contains 50 beautiful engravings to which are assigned poetic sextets in both Latin and German. The main difference with all known similar works is that it includes a three-part canon with each engraving. According to the author, the purpose is for all of this input to be looked at, read, meditated, understood, weighed, sung and listened to, not without a certain pleasure (Maier 1990, 91). In this sense, this book might be interpreted as a very early example of multimedia, and as a work which requires a performative attitude and activity (in the form of singing) and not merely to be read, for its original purpose to be fully accomplished. In this brief article I will describe the work, and present arguments to support my belief that it would be reasonable to conclude that it is an early form of multimedia.
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title Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
title_short Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
title_full Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
title_fullStr Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
title_full_unstemmed Performative and Multimedia Aspects of Late-Renaissance Meditative Alchemy: The Case of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617)
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publisher Universidad de Los Andes
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