Theatre of Memory


Model of celestial theatre based on the ideas of Renaissance philosopher, Giulio Camillo Kate Robinson and Carl Smith, 2001



Hundreds of images based on Giulio Camillo's L'Idea del Theatro are shown inside a virtual reality construction.










Each of the images in Giulio Camillo's sixteenth century work, L'Idea del Theatro, has a specific meaning based on its location within the Theatre.



Camillo describes the universe in mythical and visual terms. His sources are Biblical, Classical, from Cabbalah, from astronomy to everyday life.









The painter, Titian, worked with Camillo. He painted a series of drawings to accompany Camillo's L'Idea del Theatro. Sadly, these images perished in a fire at El Escorial in 1671.









Camillo's aim is to create a vast network of visual relationships. The Theatre works through imaginative association.












This virtual reality model incorporates contemporary images by Kate Robinson inspired by Camillo's text and digital copies of Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi, published in 1617



The images on this page are stills from a virtual reality model that moves in space.