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Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-11-2025, 02:58 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge."
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/97...4WnoTh6n1k
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Frater Albertus: Alchemist of the Rocky Mountains |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-07-2025, 05:54 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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THE ALCHEMIST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, by FRATER ALBERTUS.
Published by the PARACELSUS RESEARCH SOCIETY, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976. FIRST and LIMITED EDITION, limited to only 500 COPIES, this copy being hand-numbered No. ninety-nine.
Hardcover book in dustjacket, 6x9 inches, 167 pages.
"Frater Albertus Spagyricus (Albert Richard Riedel), b.1911 d.1984; founder of the Paracelsus Research Society in Salt Lake City, which later evolved into the Paracelsus College. Based on the Paracelsian concept of three essentials, Body, Soul and Spirit, Frater Albertus developed a system of teaching alchemical concepts using the spagyric technique of separation and cohobation."
https://picclick.com.au/Frater-Albertus-...13663.html
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