Martin Meurisse´s Theater of Natural Philosophy

• Autores: Susanna Berger
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 2, 2013, págs. 269-293
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the early seventeenth-century, the Franciscan professor of philosophy Martin Meurisse developed an international reputation for his use of art in the organization and transmission of knowledge. One of his most innovative creations was an illustrated thesis print engraved in 1615 by Léonard Gaultier that interprets Aristotle’s system of natural philosophy. The broadside juxtaposes image and text to produce a theater of nature, in which characters appear to act out Aristotle’s philosophical concepts. Meurisse’s pedagogical broadside, with its intricate, theatrical iconography, provides evidence of the complex uses of imagery in philosophy education in early modern France.