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Podcast Episode 51: St. Hildegard of Bingen


Welcome to the Season 11 Premiere of Accessible Art History: The Podcast! This season, I'm covering the lives and works of ten extraordinary women. To start things off, I'm discussing the life and works of St. Hildegard of Bingen. She was a mystic and artist who was one of the most important spiritual leaders of her day.


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St. Hildegard's place setting at the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago


Podcast episode on the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago


 

Cover Image:

Frontispiece of Scivias, showing Hildegard receiving a vision, dictating to Volmar, and sketching on a wax tablet

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons



Illumination accompanying the third vision of Part I of Scivias

c. 1165

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons















Example of St. Hildegard's Lingua Ignota

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons





 

Sources


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen


https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Hildegard


https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-hildegard-of-bingen


https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-saint-hildegard-of-bingen-370772/


https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/hildegarde_of_bingen


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scivias



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