![]() His reputation-making material included a ‘second sight’ act of apparent telepathic communication with his son. He created a theatre at the Palais Royale in Paris. The father of modern magic was 19th Century Frenchman Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin. So let’s take a whistle-stop tour of what was going on with magic entertainment just before close up magic burst on the scene in such big ways. To get to grips with any subject, it helps to check out what came before. ![]() Notice how the thief misdirects even us – the viewers of the painting – by looking up. They’re watching so carefully in fact that the spectator in front is going to go home a little poorer than he was before the show (take a close look). Those cups and balls still in action, you see a crowd gathering around and scrutinising the magician’s performance. You can see it in person at Musée Municipal, St.-Germain-en-Laye, to the west of Paris. It’s a magic routine that still lives on very much to this day in the repertoire of many close up magicians.Īnother famous example of the same routine actually is the Hieronymus Bosch painting ‘The Conjurer’ from around 1502 (shown below). Cillica mentioned that the performance he saw used cups and balls. ![]() He wrote about a certain ‘sleight-of-hand magic’ that he saw performed in the markets of Ancient Rome. Although he did not call it by that name. The Roman writer and philosopher Cillica made one of the first written accounts of magic performed as entertainment. Little do most people know, close up magic has actually been entertaining and delighting audiences for millennia.
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