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Eckhart
Lake Como


Keller
Chariot Medallion of Athena (c. 150 BC, Hellenistic)


Bahauddin
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Interrupted Reading


Epicurus
Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Mathilde de Canisy, Marquise de Antin


Pythagoras
The Smiling Angel, detail


Collin
Madonna della Rosa, Simone Cantarini


Marpa
Tutankhamun as Amun


Alcaeus
Gilded wooden statuette of the God Ptah


Epictetus
Detail of the Madonna of Embroidery by Vitale da Bologna


Plato
Goddess Hathor Embracing King Thutmose III


Pindar
Relief of Pharaoh Mentuhotep


Rilke
Without Ceres and Bacchus, Hendrick Goltzius


Silouan the Athonite
Giulio Monteverde, Angel of the Resurrection


Goethe
Dying Gladiator, Pierre Julien


Milarepa
Venus, Mars and Love, Guercino


Plotinus
Leonardo, John the Baptist


Darqawi
The fallen angel, Alexandre Cabanel


Burton
The Coronation of the Virgin with the Six Angels, detail, Agnolotti Gaddi


Monk Callistus
The Peplos Kore


Aurelius
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait


Hesiod
Mouth Opening Ritual, detail (c. 1285 BC, 19th dynasty, Hunefer Book of the Dead, British Museum, London)


Plotinus
The Ba-Bird Amulet of Tutankhamun's Mummy


Plato
Seated Bodhisattva in Half-Lotus Pose


Heraclitus
Hanged Man Card from the "Tarot of Charles VI"


Hillesum
Madonna and Child with Two Angels, detail, Filippo Lippi


Shakespeare
Fra Angelico, Last Judgment


Seneca
Celestial Worthy of Unity, Savior of Suffering


Sophocles
Amun and Pharaoh


Milarepa
Butterfly nymph brooch. Renè Lalique


Aristotle
Mizuno Toshikata, Women Preparing Matcha at a Tea Ceremony


Rilke
The Resurrection of Lazarus. Duccio di Buoninsegna


Meher Baba
Madonna of the Magnificat (detail). Sandro Botticelli


Burton
Head of Zeus, polychrome terracotta from the Etruscan temple of Orvieto


Eckhart
Fourth Day of Creation (1215-1225, Italian, San Marco Basilica, Venice)


Pindar
Penitent Magdalene. Paolo Veronese


Plato
Kagami Mochi (Mirror Rice Cake)


Anaximander
Jupiter (Zeus) (c. 130-150 AD, Roman, British Museum, London)


Ovid
Villa Vandelli-Dallari


Attar
Ahmedabad. Detail of a temple


Alcaeus
John Augustus Nahl, Tomb of Maria Magdalena Langhans


Kabir
Museum of Santa Giulia, Brescia


Ovid
Nymph (detail of the water) sculpture by Giovanni Lombardi


Nahuatl poetry
Garden of Villa Vandelli Dallari, Lesignana, Modena
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