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Prose on The Culturium

Jul 01 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Marianne Werefkin, Prayer.
Image: Public Domain

How the fear of dying becomes a gateway to the joy of living

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: christian mysticism, fiction, ivan ilyich, leo tolstoy, marianne werefkin, prose, russian, short story

Jun 10 2016

Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer

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Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: ancient greek, ben-hur, nonfiction, phaedrus, philosophy, plato, prose, socrates

May 27 2016

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker

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Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
Image: Public Domain

The joys of the reclusive life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: autobiography, caspar david friedrich, essay, jean-jacques rousseau, meditations of a solitary walker, nonfiction, philosophy, prose, silence, swiss, travel

Apr 22 2016

William Blake: All Religions Are One

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William Blake, Elohim Creating Adam.
Image: Public Domain

The art of the poetic genius

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: all religions are one, christian mysticism, english, essay, nonfiction, painting, prose, romanticism, spirituality, william blake

Mar 25 2016

Paula Marvelly: Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet

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Paula Marvelly, Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

In search of the miraculous

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: architecture, christian mysticism, french, nonfiction, prose, sanctuaire notre-dame de laghet, spirituality, travel, women

Mar 11 2016

Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

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Vassily Kandinsky, Composition IV.
Image: Public Domain

A creed to the creative life

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: bauhaus, composition, concerning the spiritual in art, improvisation, music, nonfiction, painting, prose, russian, spirituality, wassily kandinsky

Feb 05 2016

Greg Goode: Gatsby and Gestalt Shifts

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F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Photograph: The World’s Work,
[Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

An appreciation of spirituality and literature

Written by Greg Goode · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: edgar rice burroughs, f. scott fitzgerald, fiction, francis ford coppola, greg goode, guest post, henry james, j.r.r. tolkein, jane austen, marcel proust, prose, spirituality

Dec 17 2015

Alice Koller: An Unknown Woman

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Gustave Courbet, The Wave (1869).
Image: Public Domain

How the solitary life by the sea gave one woman a reason to live

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alice koller, american, an unknown woman, autobiography, gustave courbet, nantucket, nonfiction, prose, travel, women

Dec 10 2015

E. M. Forster: The Celestial Omnibus

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William Blake, Dante and Virgil Penetrating the Forest.
Image: Public Domain

The triumph of experience over knowledge

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: dante, divine comedy, e m forster, english, fiction, prose, short story, the celestial omnibus, william blake

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