Hildegard von Bingen: The Fountain of Wisdom: Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy

$55.00 at The Getty Museum.

The polymath mystic's final suite of illustrated visions presented in its entirety for the first timeAround 1170, the German abbess, mystic and composer Hildegard von Bingen embarked on her final journey to recount her visions. At this point, Hildegard entrusted her spiritual insights not only to written words, but also to painted images, wherein her divine wisdom flows through form, color, sound, numbers and the movement of the stars. The result was her final manuscript, the Book of Divine Works, completed…