Dampierre-sur-Boutonne. A vessel for honorable purposes, another for dishonorable. Fulcanelli here evades the double sense of Vas Naturae and Vas Artis.
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Hieronymus Bosch and the Concert in the Egg
No metaphoric at all, this Hieronymus Bosch painting is as realistic as it could be: there is a real concert inside the philosophical Egg.
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Raffaello takes the same rod-breaking iconographic theme from his master Pietro Perugino—a semantic survey on the Latin word radius and Greek ράβδος.
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In this Etruscan cinerary Urn, there is a decoration that may explain the symbol of the pillar-shaped altar and why two warriors defend it.
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A mystery or spousal initiation in the Villa of Mysteries? Priestesses and Mystica Vannus Iacchii in secret breezy rites veiled with female caution.
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