Dinesh's photos with the keyword: A History of Genius ~ Divine Fury

FIGURE 7.2 The marriage of business and genius. Henry Ford and his friend Thomas Edison. Culver Pictures / Art Archive of Art Resource, New York.

FIGURE 4.6. Casper David Friedrich, Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, c. 1816. The vision of Romantic genius: solitude and transcendence, individuality and mystical communion with nature, spirit or “the one.” Bpk, Berlin / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / Elke Walford / Art Resource, New York

FIGURE 4.4. Louis Edouard Fournier, ‘The Funeral of Shelly,’ 1889. In this rendering of the 1822 cremation, Edward John Trelawny, the poet Leigh Hunt, and Byron are pictured from left to right. Courtesy National Museum Liverpool youtu.be/a2NrziwS8II?si=_E9BaigY15efhf2G

FIGURE 1.2. William Blake, Satan Calling Up His Legions, C 1805. Inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the painting presents Lucifer, the wisest of the angles, in quasi-heroic terms as a being who dared to rival God. National Trust Photo Library / Art Resources, New York

FIGURE 1.1. Peter_Paul Rubens, Prometheus Bound, early seventeenth century. The Prometheus myth is an archetype of the dangers, as well as the temptations, of usurping divine creativity and knowledge. Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource, New York - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I am Prometheus under the vulture’s beak, Man, the discoverer of the undying Fire, In the flame he kindled burning like a moth; I am the seeker who can never find, I am the fighter who can never win, I am the runner who never touched his goal; Hell tortures me with the edges of my thought, Heaven tortures me with the splendour of my dreams. ||122.26|| ~ "Savithri" ~ Sri Aurobindo

FIGU8RE 2.2. albrecht Durer, Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514. The translator of the Bible as a scholar-saint engrossed in contemplation, privy to special revelations. Bpk, Berlin / Kupferstichkabinett, Statliche Museen, Berlin /Joerg P. Andes / Art Resource, New York

FIGURE 3.2. The genius (Voltaire) with his ‘genius,’ source of inspiration and light. The frequent coupling the ‘genii’ and men of genius in the eighteenth century perpetuated the conflation of their powers. The Latin epigraph translates loosely as “One day he will be as dear to all, as he now is to his friends.” Engraving by J. Balcchou after a portrait of Jean Michel Liotard, 1756. (Collection of the author)