Myriorama

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The Myriorama (Greek, “ten thousand show”) is a variant of the panorama .

The Myriorama was invented in 1802 by the physicist, physician and educator Jean-Pierre Brès in Paris and improved by Clark in London . It "consists of a landscape painted on a long strip in the most colorful colors, which is cut into many parts so that the average lines fit together everywhere and the individual landscape pieces can be reassembled many times over, resulting in very many landscapes." Sets consisted of 16, 24 or more playing cards. “24 cards allowed 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,000 possible permutations .” In the 1970s and 80s there were reprints of a myriorama with 24 cards for sale, on the box of which an even greater number of possibilities and a formula for calculation were given. Shorter variants (with a subset of the cards) were also taken into account.

Myrioramas were particularly popular in England during the Biedermeier period as "instructive games of layout". They were not only intended for entertainment, but were also intended as instructions for drawing landscapes and generally as training in perceiving landscapes. In these myrioramas, the individual landscape elements were taken from reality and identifiable.

The most demanding type of these myrioramas was published in England under the name "Hellenicorama". The then prevailing enthusiasm of the educational travelers for Greece turned into disappointment: "Perhaps the greatest disappointment [...] for most travelers was that they did not succeed in feeling the historical significance of the landscapes and sites they visited." With the help of a Hellenicorama, you could train your perception of the historical landscapes before starting your journey.

The publishers of the myrioramas soon discovered, however, that in addition to these elaborate and expensive didactic toys, there was a larger market, intended for simpler editions than children's toys.

Since the nineties of the last century, contemporary graphic artists have increasingly been grappling with the myiorama as a work of art. So was z. In 2006, for example, a Myriorama Edition designed by the Hamburg artist Detlef John was published by Veduto Verlag.

Other panoramas are diorama , georama , neorama , cosmorama , pleorama and cyclorama .

literature

  • Jan van Brevern: Views from Nowhere , Munich 2012.
  • Jan van Brevern: Greece, a disappointment , in: Imorde, Joseph; Wegerhoff, Erik (ed.): Dirty sheets. The downside of the ›Grand Tour‹ , Berlin 2012, pp. 68–81.
  • Ralph Hyde: Myrioramas. Endless landscapes. The story of a craze , in: Print Quarterly 2004, H. 4, pp. 403-421.
  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Vol. 11, Leipzig 1877.
  • Stephan Oettermann: The panorama. The history of a mass medium , Frankfurt am Main 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephan Oettermann: The panorama. The history of a mass medium , Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 55.
  2. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Vol. 11, Leipzig 1877, p. 862
  3. ↑ Jan van Brevern: Views from Nirgendwo , Munich 2012, p. 141.
  4. ↑ http://from-bedroom-to-study.blogspot.de/2012/04/figures-in-landscape.html
  5. ↑ Ralph Hyde: Myrioramas. Endless landscapes. The story of a craze , in: Print Quarterly 2004, no. 4, p. 420.
  6. ↑ Jan van Brevern: Greece, a disappointment , in: Imorde, Joseph; Wegerhoff, Erik (ed.): Dirty sheets. The downside of the ›Grand Tour‹ , Berlin 2012, p. 69 f.
  7. ↑ Jan van Brevern: Greece, a disappointment , in: Imorde, Joseph; Wegerhoff, Erik (ed.): Dirty sheets. The downside of the ›Grand Tour‹ , Berlin 2012, p. 72.
  8. ↑ Ralph Hyde: Myrioramas. Endless landscapes. The story of a craze , in: Print Quarterly 2004, no. 4, p. 413.
  9. ↑ Josh Millard presents POLYORAMA ( memento of the original from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / polyorama.joshmillard.com

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