In a remote mountain village above the town of Como, two powerful women secured the fame of the “Popess.” Read part 3/3 on Rainer Maria…
A holy woman and a soldier connect the poet Rainer Maria Rilke with the Popess of one of the earliest extant tarot decks. Read part…
A gleaming thread, gossamer yet firm, connects the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and an odd and enigmatic artwork from late medieval Northern Italy. Read part…
A gleaming thread, gossamer yet firm, connects the poet Rainer Maria Rilke with an odd and enigmatic artwork from late medieval Northern Italy. A three-part post…
Early tarot cards — used for gaming, not divination — emblemize the midpoint of fifteenth-century Italy, a crossroads of Medieval imagination and Renaissance intellect. They…
Abandoned to water and sky and what earth the roots of the scrubby trees and grass can hold, abandoned islands dot the lagoon of Venice.…