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