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Hildegard von Bingen
Museum of the island of Mozia


Plutarch
Perugino, St. Lucy


Epictetus
Bracelet of Shoshenq II with Eye of Horus


Collin
Colorful Mandala-shaped doilies, Noto


Ibn Arabi
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait


Alcaeus
Autumn Night, Vincent Van Gogh


Da Vinci
Side apse of Modena Cathedral


Pindar
Angkor Wat, aerial view


Rilke
Deposition, Beato Angelico, Convent of San Marco, Florence; detail


Sufi Wisdom
Deposition, Fra Angelico, Convent of San Marco, Florence


Archilochus
Coat of arms on the ceiling of the Sala Borsa, Bologna


Ad-Darqwi
Young Woman with Daisies (detail) Emile Vernon


Sophocles
Ruggiero Saves Himself on the Rock. Prospero Minghetti


Aeschylus
Whistle with an Ancestor Emerging from a Flower (7th-9th century, Mayan)


Anaximander
Gorinto (Five Elements’ Stupa)


Rumi
Aphrodite and Adonis in Etruscan Amber (detail of fibula)


Burton
Disillusion, Francesco Queirolo. San Severo Chapel, Naples


Aurelius
Mars and Venus, detail of the fresco of the Wedding of Hercules, Pompeii


Gurdjieff
Ondine rising from the fountain. Bradley Ives


Rumi
Head of a Woman, Leonardo Da Vinci


Aurelius
Caravaggio's Bacchus (detail)


Aristotle
Mephistopheles, Eduard Von Grutzer


Rilke
Matthew and the Angel, detail, Giovanni Ambrogio Ficino


Plato
William Adolphe Bouguereau, Cupid with a Butterfly


Rilke
Flora, detail of a fresco from Villa Arianna in ancient Stabia


Burton
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Birth of Venus


Sappho
Rembrandt, Saul and David


Hesiod
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait


Blake
The Birth of Venus, detail, Sandro Botticelli


Aurelius
Jacob-Fransz van der Merck, Lute Player


Burton
Salome with the Head of the Baptist, detail, Bernardino Luini


Chinul
Old Man in the Manner of St. Paul, Rembrandt


Homer
The Heavy Burden of Love (Japanese Noh-Play)


Alcaeus
The Rasamandala, Krishna’s Cosmic Dance with Gopis


Homer
Pensive Athena (c. 470-460 BC, Greek, Acropolis Museum, Athens)


Dante
Mosaic floor from the excavations of ancient Ostia


Aeschylus
The Virgin Mary, Bernardo Daddi


Andersen
Perugino, The Archangel Raphael with Tobias


Aurelius
First secret confidence with Venus. Francois Jouffroy


Plotinus
Priest Baozhi (Hoshi Washo)


Dante
Statue of Apollo (Kouros) (100 BC – AD 79)


Yiming
Pyramid of Cheops in Giza


Aurelius
High Official’s Mummy Mask (14th century BC)


Whitman
Half-Male, Half-Female Mask (Thai)


Cicero
William Blake, Death's Door
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