Jakob Böhme was a Lutheran, born about a century after Martin Luther himself. While Böhme worked as a shoemaker, he also expressed his Christian faith using mandalas. He’s a strange, but interesting dude. Böhme had divine visions, as did Hildegard von Bingen (still not saying where she is on the […]
Herrad of Landsberg was an amazing woman from the 12th century. She was a very well-educated abbess, and her community resided at the Hohenburg Abbey in Eastern France. She’s allegedly the first woman to write an encyclopedia. Herrad was born about 30 years after Hildegard of Bingen, another woman who is […]
One of my favorite artists, M.C. Escher is a Dutch artist and print maker. He created motifs which, when repeated, fill the printed page. Escher also created roughly two dozen prints with Biblical themes. One finds him returning to specific Biblical themes over the course of his life, rendering them […]
The Hour of Monarchy was painted by Salvador Dalí, and is currently located in Barcelona, Spain, in the Palacio Albeniz. Dalí was one of the best known painters of the Surrealist movement, and became a Christian later in life. Looking back on Dalí’s paintings, and antics, before 1949, they illustrate […]
In this series we are going to cover the Top 10 Christian Mandala creators. The requirements to make it into this list of Top 10 are as follows: The individual created at least one Christian Mandala They were, or are, Christians You wouldn’t peg some of the people on this […]
