Hermetic art is despised in our age, Daniel Meisner

“Ars nostro spernitur ævo” ([Hermetic] art is despised in our age)

“Ars nostro spernitur ævo” ([Hermetic] art is despised in our age) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

The central figure is an old man, a scholar or artist, walking and carrying on his back a huge basket full of instruments and tools: a compass, a square, a ruler, an ancient astronomical instrument that resembles a cross and that is used to calculate the distance between two celestial bodies, a globe of the Earth, etc.  etc.

Cognitio: Apollo, Pallas Athena, and the Nine Muses, VM Kwen Khan Khu

Cognitio

Cognitio 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I am pleased to send you this engraving entitled: Cognitio. The scene, allegorical and mythological, shows us the seat of the nine muses on Mount Helicon, presided over by the Gods Apollo ─identified by his luminous aura and his harp─ and Pallas Athena ─who appears in the upper left corner on a cloud, with a helmet and a spear.