Film stills from Arabian Nights (dir. by Pier Paolo Pasolini, cinematography by Giuseppe Ruzzolini, 1974).
(via Reorient, Mondo-Digital, & YouTube/Filmes HD)
Intellectus Coelestes Chart—showing the hierarchical arrangement of the ontological principles via listing fourteen genera of beings: three elements (earth, water, air), celestial heat, stones, plants, living creatures generated from putrescent matter (animantia ex putredine), quadrupeds, birds, fish, reptiles, human beings, demons, and God—from De arcanis aeternitatis (Gerolamo Cardano, 16th century CE).
Cover to Alberto Brandi’s The Dark Way: Introduction to the Left Hand Path (cover designer/artist unknown, 2008).
(via Internet Bookshop Italia)
Black Madonna of Częstochowa mosaic in the Jasna Góra Monastery, Poland (Paolo Favret, early 21st century).
(via Wikipedia)
Frontispiece to Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun (engraving/design by unknown, 1602).
(via AgenPress)
Art by Alessandro Sicioldr (early 21st century).
(via Tutt Art)
Frontispieces and illustrations from Tommaso Garzoni’s La Piazza Universale (unknown artists, 1585-1695 CE).
(via Wikimedia Commons, Live Auctioneers, & The Saleroom)
Cover to Henry Corbin’s In Iranian Islam. Vol. 2: Sohrawardi and the Platonists of Persia—Mimesis/Abraxas Edition (artist/designer unknown, 2015).
(via Internet Bookshop Italia)
Cipher illustrations from Giambattista della Porta’s De furtivis literarum notis (artist unknown, 1591 CE).
(via Hyperallergic)
Cover and title pages to Terence McKenna’s True Hallucinations, Italian edition (illustrations by Matteo Guarnaccia, 1995).
(via Scribd)
Cover to Richard Evans Schultes & Albert Hofmann’s The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, Italian Edition (artist/designer unknown, 1970s).
(via Scribd)
Page from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (unknown artist and scribe, 15th century).
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Cover to Pierre Reverdy’s Song of the Dead, Poems (Pablo Picasso, 1948).
(via Print Magazine)
Cassette album cover to Italian band Zos Kia’s “Introduction to the Ritual” (unknown artist, 1988).
(via Nostalgie de la Boue)
Cover to Milo Manara’s comic book adaptation of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass (written and illustrated by Milo Manara, 2016).
(via Latin for Everyone!)
Pages from Natalis Comes’ Mythologiae (artist unknown, 1616).
Page from Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres (Three Books on Life) (unknown artist, 1489 CE).
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