Literature on The Culturium

Nov 12 2015

Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine

Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias:
The True Trinity in True Unity.
Photograph: The Yorck Project,
[Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Polymath and mystic whose artistic and intellectual output was unsurpassed

Nov 10 2015

Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life

Arseny Tarkovsky.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art

Nov 05 2015

Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema

Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Oct 22 2015

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

To write is to live, and to live is to write

Oct 15 2015

Alan Jacobs: Heart of Heart’s Chalice of Love’s Fire

Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How the Victorian poet Swinburne inspired a Postmodern Formalist’s work

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

Detail of the portrait of a young woman
(so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets.
Photograph: Wolfgang Rieger, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The six types of Greek love and why Plato revered a female poet from Lesbos