The Art of Memory and the Passion

摘要: The classical technique known as the ars memorativa—a system for reinforcing memory by generating mental images within architectural spaces—has been much discussed art historians concerned with its implications visual arts in Middle Ages and Renaissance. Here a passage on “striking” from Rhetorica ad Herennium (first century b.c.e.) is juxtaposed Gospel account of Christ's Passion way reconfiguring our usual assumptions about iconography style late medieval devotional images, specifically Crowning Thorns Portrait Christ.