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Ripa Cesare

Cesare Ripa: Wheels, Spindles and Celestial Pointers

By Iulia Millesima

The strange symbols of Wheel and Spindle in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia may have their source in the pre-socratic greek thinking, which derives from earlier sapiential traditions. [Read more…] about Cesare Ripa: Wheels, Spindles and Celestial Pointers

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Cesare Ripa & the Two Canons of Beauty

By Iulia Millesima

In Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia we find two different canons of feminine beauty: a bearded  and an ineffable one. Which may fit with our two kind of Mercurius. [Read more…] about Cesare Ripa & the Two Canons of Beauty

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Cesare Ripa & the Hot Frozen Ouroboros World Machine

By Iulia Millesima

Cesare Ripa’s iconology of the Ouroboros world machine  fits our  alchemical main tools: hot and frozen. The real dichotomy.  The real Father and Mother. [Read more…] about Cesare Ripa & the Hot Frozen Ouroboros World Machine

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