It's a bit of a shame that I never payed close attention to the English surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, one time lover of Max Ernst. Cause she's amazing! Some interesting tidbits: as a Mexican emigrant, Carrington worked with Alexander Jodorowsky in his visually stunning theatrical productions. She's into Robert Graves' The White Goddess, among many other things to do with myth, folktales, alchemy and the occult. She once showered with her clothes on. Take a look at Susan L. Aberth's Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art.
Garden What are You, White Vision?
The Magical World of the Mayas
The Burning of Giordano Bruno
Interested in alchemy and hermetics, Carrington painted the execution of Giordano Bruno, the Italian philosopher and alchemist whose "heretic" interests, including cosmology/astrology, mnemonics, Copernican science, and the relationship between images and signs, got him nicely burned at the stake.
Giordano Bruno
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