Category Archives: The Sacred

The Virgin on the Beast

Posted on October 21, 2011 by ubu507

Goncharova, Natalia Russian (1881-1962) 1914 Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

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Great Noises By The Afflicted 11

Posted on October 5, 2011 by ubu507
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Gaia

Posted on September 24, 2011 by ubu507

Roman, 1st Century Walters Art Museum

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Female Figure (Phi type)

Posted on September 19, 2011 by ubu507

c.1300–1200 BC Mycenaean Saint Louis Art Museum

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A Maiden, a Monkey, and the Mango Tree

Posted on September 13, 2011 by ubu507

  Indian ca. 850 The celestial woman’s body bends, as if from the weight of her breasts, just as the mango tree is pulled down by the heavy fruit. The monkey is a playful spectator of this masterful play of … Continue reading →

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Mackinac Woods

Posted on September 7, 2011 by ubu507

The mythical world and the mythical earth is always present; it is like the abundance the gods conceal from us — we wander as beggars amidst inexhaustible treasures. — Ernst Junger

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All the beings of our world are, in the eyes of the Gnostics, the sediment of a lost heaven. — Jacques Lacarriere

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ubu507

Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, draped in a sleeved chiton, and with her hair parted in the middle and brought down over her ears, nose now missing, surrounded … Continue reading →

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Gnostic Serpent

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ubu507

Oval red-orange chalcedony intaglio: snake with Gnostic inscriptions above and below. (undated) British Museum If a person has eyes that know how to see, he will look upwards to the heavens and he will see the beautiful image of the … Continue reading →

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The Descent Into Hell

Posted on June 27, 2011 by ubu507

Print made by Master of St Erasmus Date 1450-1470 The British Museum When Jesus descended into Hell, the sinners listened to his words and were all saved. But the saints, believing as usual that they were being put to the … Continue reading →

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Luna

Posted on June 17, 2011 by ubu507

Engraver  Sadeler, Jan, I Artist  Vos, Maarten de Creation date  1585  Indianapolis Museum of Art

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