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
Bad love poems and teenage pontification
The Germ, Vol.1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, 1850The Epic of Gilgamesh
2100 BCECharming and pointed vignettes from the life of a great Canadian painter
Growing Pains — The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Emily Carr, 1946The Iliad
800 BCEPresent-day beauty: the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent
The Painter of Modern Life
1863More terrible poems by the Pre-Raphaelite boyband/brotherhood.
The Germ, Vol.2
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Woolner,Memoirs of Madame Vigee-Lebrun
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1835An Icelandic poet recounts the violence and drama of the Norse sagas
The Prose Edda
1200Prophetic visions or the hallucinations of ergot poisoning?
Scivias
Hildegard von Bingen, 1152The infinite complexities of beauty in six principles
The Analysis of Beauty
William Hogarth, 1753The honorable Kings of Persia are an example to us all
The Epic of Kings
1010Exploring the poetry of ideas
The Gulistan of Sa'di
1258The Divine Comedy
1320The Odyssey
800 BCEIt takes 1.8 million words to describe the meaning of life
The Mahābhārata
400 BCEThe adventures of Aeneis the Trojan, and what happens when the gods hate you
Aeneid
19 CEThe transformations of man and gods from before formation of the world
Metamorphoses
1 CEHow to build roads, buildings and aqueducts with Roman precision
Ten Books on Architecture
15 BCEPhysics, the mind, soul, the movements of the universe, and sex, obviously
On the Nature of Things
50 BCEWant to become a Brahman? Memorize 1000 laws.
The Laws of Manu
200 BCERama's journey to rescue his wife from the demon king (she's in another castle)
The Ramayana
100 BCEThe rarest of the 19th century grimoires
The Magus, Book 1
1801Spells for finding hidden treasure, binding love and summoning angels
The Key of Solomon, Book 1
1400Great minds don't always think alike
The New Art — The New Life
Piet Mondrian, 1993The first encyclopedia of artists
The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari, 1550A masterclass on poetry and theater — too bad it’s half missing
Aristotle’s Poetics
335 BCETypography that stands the test of time
Of the Just Shaping of Letters
Albrecht Dürer, 1525Sad poems from a strange artist