Image: The Rock Nobody Could Lft, etching by Rain Wu (2018)
Image credit: Ceramic figurine from the Moche culture of the north coast of Peru depicting a flute player.
Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.
Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.
Image credit: 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance.
Image credit: Detail from the frontispiece of Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Abraham Bosse,1651
Image credit: Max Stirner in a cartoon by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Image credit: Roman coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar, issued in 42 BC
Image credit: Porphyry column decorated with group of two embracing older Tetrarchs. Rome. 293-305.
Image credits: Geometric nest of a pufferfish.
Image credit: Cosmic Rose Engraving from Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae by Heinrich Khunrath (1595).
Image credit: Throne Angels
Image credit: Antidotum tarantulae, a curative musical score from Athanasius Kircher (c. 1660).
Image credit: Francesco Guardi, Marina in Tempesta, circa 1765/70.
Image credit: Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi (D. 1240 Ad): Fusus Al-Hikam. Mamluk Egypt, dated 19 Dhu'l Hijja Ah 797/4 October 1395 AD.
Image credit: Portrait of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, by Tobias Stimmer, 1589
Musicologist and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses world-building music across the centuries.Credit: Francesco Fusaro, Tafelmusik Var. I, 2021. Collage, 65x92. Courtesy of the artist.
6-years old Arturo Campagna discusses children’s literature and dispenses advice to writers for children.Image credits: Rain Wu, Arion, 2019. Stoneware clay and glazes, 9x11cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Federico Campagna presents the philosophical take on children’s world-view and culture in Elemire Zolla’s 1994 “Children’s Awe” and Cristina Campo’s 1971 “The Flute and the Rug”.Image credits: Ivan Bilibin, Stage-set design for Scene Two, Act Four of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1929.