Podcast Episode 51: St. Hildegard of Bingen

Welcome to the Season 11 Premiere of Accessible Art History: The Podcast! This season, I'm covering the lives and works of ten extraordinary women. To start things off, I'm discussing the life and works of St. Hildegard of Bingen. She was a mystic and artist who was one of the most important spiritual leaders of her day.

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St. Hildegard's place setting at the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

Podcast episode on the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

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Cover Image:

Frontispiece of Scivias, showing Hildegard receiving a vision, dictating to Volmar, and sketching on a wax tablet

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Illumination accompanying the third vision of Part I of Scivias

c. 1165

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Example of St. Hildegard's Lingua Ignota

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Hildegard

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-hildegard-of-bingen

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-saint-hildegard-of-bingen-370772/

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/hildegarde_of_bingen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scivias