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Author: Livio Vilela

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Labyrinths in Art

  • Fragment from painting by the Maestro di Tavarnelle "Theseus and the Minotaur", showing the labyrinth
    Theseus and the Minotaur (1510-1515) by the Maestro di Tavarnelle, fragment
  • Pleasure Garden with a Maze (circa 1579-1584) by Lodewijk Toeput
  • The Cretish Labyrinth, Landscapes with Biblical an Mythological Scenes (1558), etching by Hieronymus Cock, after Mattys Cock
  • The Labyrinth (1951) by Robert Vickrey
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"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?" Matthew 16:26, The Bible

“World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jewelled inner life matters." Rumi

“None can reach dawn without travelling the road of night." Kahlil Gibran

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