Monthly Archives: March 2020

#4: Hildegard von Bingen

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We finally arrive at Hildegard von Bingen (mentioned her in a few posts)!  She was an utterly brilliant, influential Christian woman.  Constructing mandalas in the 12th century, she’s the earliest Christian Mandala creator I know of. Hildegard was a German Benedictine Abbess.  Like Herrad von Landsberg, Hildegard was a female superior for […]

#5: Sandro Botticelli

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Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter from the early Renaissance.  He was a true master. Botticelli’s best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.  In both masterpieces the lighting is ambient (coming from all directions).  Shadows, for the most part, are absent.  This gives the sense that the subjects in the […]