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"Nastagio Degli Onesti", Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510), Italian
Nastagio degli Onesti is the protagonist in one of the one hundred short stories contained in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
"Hecate", Maximilian Pirner (1853 - 1924 ), Czech
Hecate was a Greek goddess of crossroads, night, light, magic, necromancy. Her epithets include: Klêidouchos - holding keys; Chthonia - of the underworld/earth; Kourotrophos - the nurse of children; Phosphoros - bringing light.
Venus Futurism
The honey shall flow from the mountains. Under the teeth, the sweet taste of honeycomb shall never cease. The air shall be of the May roses & the sea. We shall stand by the shores of the rose-tinted, sparkly oceans, listening to the orchestra of seashells.
"In the course of his wanderings, Moses said to his servant: "I shall not give up until I reach the junction of the two seas, even I have to spend untold years in my quest!"
- Al Kahf (18:60)
Art: Moses with the Tablets of Law & Moses & The Gathering of the Manna, Guido Reni
"Ruggiero and Angelica", Joseph Paul Blanc (1846 -1904), French
"The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne", Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Italian
"Before Hashem manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him. He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form the Universe."
- The Zohar
Art: Mahmoud Farshchian