Nov 12 2015 Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias: The True Trinity in True Unity. Photograph: The Yorck Project, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons Polymath and mystic whose artistic and intellectual output was unsurpassed
Nov 10 2015 Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life Arseny Tarkovsky. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art
Nov 05 2015 Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema Edgardo Cozarinsky, Autobiography of an Unknown . Image: © Edgardo Cozarinsky Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid
Nov 03 2015 Sri V. Ganesan: The Ultimate Question Paula Marvelly, Sri V. Ganesan. Image: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium Sri Ramana Maharshi’s great-nephew expounds the teachings of India’s greatest guru
Oct 29 2015 John Cage: Silence Rob Croes, John Cage. Image: [CC0 1.0 Universal] Public Domain How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing
Oct 27 2015 Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa Alexandra David Néel.Image: Public Domain How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city
Oct 22 2015 Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Image: Public Domain To write is to live and to live is to write
Oct 20 2015 Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.Image: Janus Films Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye need to know?
Oct 15 2015 Alan Jacobs: Heart of Heart’s Chalice of Love’s Fire Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs. Image: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium How the Victorian poet Swinburne inspired a Postmodern Formalist’s work