http://blogs.evergreen.edu/ealphabet/a-is-for-alchemy/bestiarius-apocalypsi-autumn/ Flocks of Words, Tracks of Letters, Butterflies of the Soul Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/ealphabet/a-is-for-alchemy/bestiarius-apocalypsi-autumn/#comment-230 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:09:40 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/ealphabet/files/2013/04/Bestiarius-apocalypsi-autumn.jpg#comment-230 This image is the one I used for my A is for Alchemy title page. It was found on the metafilter butdoesitfloat.com. The artist is Konstantin Kemorovo. To me, this image is a modern surrealist take on a medieval alchemical plate. The dragon (another name for the philosophers stone) and water (aqua permanens) are both central motifs of the alchemical mythos.

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