Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures...
On Fear and Self Portraits
Gustav Klimt, 1900In the midst of Umma Entemena overthrew Urlumma and killed him. He left behind 60 soldiers of his force dead on the bank of the canal.
The war for the Tigris and Euphrates canal
2500 BCE
The Germ, Vol.1
Bad love poems and teenage pontification
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, 1850The Epic of Gilgamesh
2100 BCEGrowing Pains — The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Charming and pointed vignettes from the life of a great Canadian painter
Emily Carr, 1946The Iliad
800 BCEThe Painter of Modern Life
Present-day beauty: the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent
1863The Germ, Vol.2
More terrible poems by the Pre-Raphaelite boyband/brotherhood.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Woolner,Memoirs of Madame Vigee-Lebrun
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1835The Prose Edda
An Icelandic poet recounts the violence and drama of the Norse sagas
1200Scivias
Prophetic visions or the hallucinations of ergot poisoning?
Hildegard von Bingen, 1152The Analysis of Beauty
The infinite complexities of beauty in six principles
William Hogarth, 1753The Epic of Kings
The honorable Kings of Persia are an example to us all
1010The Gulistan of Sa'di
Exploring the poetry of ideas
1258The Divine Comedy
1320The Odyssey
800 BCEThe Mahābhārata
It takes 1.8 million words to describe the meaning of life
400 BCEAeneid
The adventures of Aeneis the Trojan, and what happens when the gods hate you
19 CEMetamorphoses
The transformations of man and gods from before formation of the world
1 CETen Books on Architecture
How to build roads, buildings and aqueducts with Roman precision
15 BCEOn the Nature of Things
Physics, the mind, soul, the movements of the universe, and sex, obviously
50 BCEThe Laws of Manu
Want to become a Brahman? Memorize 1000 laws.
200 BCEThe Ramayana
Rama's journey to rescue his wife from the demon king (she's in another castle)
100 BCEThe Magus, Book 1
The rarest of the 19th century grimoires
1801The Key of Solomon, Book 1
Spells for finding hidden treasure, binding love and summoning angels
1400The New Art — The New Life
Great minds don't always think alike
Piet Mondrian, 1993The Lives of the Artists
The first encyclopedia of artists
Giorgio Vasari, 1550Aristotle’s Poetics
A masterclass on poetry and theater — too bad it’s half missing
335 BCEOf the Just Shaping of Letters
Typography that stands the test of time
Albrecht Dürer, 1525Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto
Sad poems from a strange artist
Florine Stettheimer, 1949