"This painting, “Basins 1,” explores the fountain as an alchemical symbol, where each cascading basin is a cycle of dissolution and renewal. The saturated colors and organic forms evoke a kind of modern 'Hortus conclusus,' an enclosed garden where opposites mingle and quiet transformation begins to take root."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU8xxoXkVbO/

"In 1550, a printer in Frankfurt published a collection of alchemical texts with twenty woodcuts. One of them would become the most reproduced image in the history of Western alchemy. It shows a lion, its body green, its mane flowing, its jaws clamped around a radiant sun with a human face. Beneath the image, an inscription: 'I am the true green and Golden Lion without cares. In me all the secrets of the Philosophers are hidden'.”

https://www.crazyalchemist.com/nature-sc...hemy-uses/

"Alchemical Art Lab is a living research studio and laboratory of ideas. Its practice sustains a continual dialogue between alchemical and philosophical traditions and a present already leaning into the future."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU_PgZIEogk/

"This project began as a visual research into historical alchemical manuscripts. I wanted to explore how ancient occult geometry can be translated into a modern interface language without losing its mystery."

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6PEAn

Liana Cheney

University of Massachusetts Lowell


"The purpose of this essay is to identify and analyze one of Lavinia Fontana's mysterious paintings, traditionally entitled Cleopatra but here considered to be an inventive portrayal of an ancient scientist, Cleopatra the Alchemist (ca. third century BCE)."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._Alchemist

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

https://www.wikiart.org/en/lavinia-fontana

"E. H., also known as eine jungfer ("a young maiden"), was the pseudonymous author of a 1574 alchemical text. Her treatise describes the properties of gold, and includes instructions for processing the metal. It also includes an interpretation of the cryptic Tabula Smaragdina.
In 1702, a German translation of the text was combined with another alchemical tract and a catalog of 17th-century Kabbalistic books and published in Hamburg by Gottfried Liebezeit as Ein ausführlicher Tractat von Philosophischen Werck des Steins der Weisen, durch eine Jungfer E. H. genannt anno 1574 geschrieben. Samt einer gründlichen Untersuchung... der Art und Eigenschafft des Goldes...dabey angefüget: ein Catalogus Librorum Kabalisticorum.Liebezeit did not know the identity of E. H., but believed she had written the original version in French. In 2026, German artist Anselm Kiefer included a painting of E. H. in his collection, The Women Alchemists, which was displayed in Milan's Sala delle Cariatidi as part of the cultural showcase of the 2026 Winter Olympics." (Wikipedia)

Text here:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fewxzzzd/items

"Avalon Working is equal parts grimoire and devotional, gazeteer and visionary journey. In a journey to the heart of Albion, the work passionately argues for Glastonbury as a centre of emergence and initiation, a latter-day Eleusis. The work invites readers to actively participate in the Holy Island’s unfolding destiny, in partnership with its guardians and powers, to co-create its mythopoeia and, in doing so, forge a new Avalonian covenant. Glastonbury’s role and status in the tapestry of Britain’s magickal history is significant and undeniable, from Edward Kelley to Dion Fortune. Yet it has also come to embody the worst traits of the New Age, which commodifies and trivialises the sacred. In Avalon Working, Mark Nemglan restores the Holy Island’s reputation as a locus and fountainhead of extraordinary magickal power for a new generation of practitioners and seekers. Writing in a progressive occult idiom, Nemglan evokes the multiple threads of Celtic, Arthurian, Druidic and Faerie currents and braids these with alchemical, geomantic, witchcraft, Thelemic, Typhonian and Draconian traditions."

https://blackenedhandbooks.com.au/avalon...k-nemglan/

"At the same time, [Cagnetti] devoted himself to the study of classical Greek and Latin sources, including Agricola, Biringuccio, Cellini, Dioscorides, Pliny, Theophrastus, and others. It is during this period that Andrea Cagnetti makes a striking discovery: the world of alchemical knowledge."

https://www.excellencemagazine.luxury/akelo/

"In Greek vocabulary, a precise distinction is established between two forms of air:
● ἀήρ (aḗr): the lower air, breathable and mutable, associated with vapors, clouds, and atmospheric
changes.
● αἰθήρ (aithḗr): the upper air, clear and radiant, linked to the open sky and to the region of the
stars.
The word αἰθήρ also preserves a direct association with fire, through its etymological relation to the verb
αἴθω (“to burn,” “to kindle,” “to shine”). Within this framework, aether is described as an air of a distinct
quality: luminous, subtle, and “ardent” in the sense of clarity and radiance—proper to the upper realm, a
celestial fire not subject to combustion or consumption."


Briefs in ancient cosmology #9 by P Sanchez

https://philarchive.org/archive/SNCTAC

"The purpose of this essay is to offer an account of the hidden meaning of the Volsung Saga (Völsunga saga). In drawing out this meaning, I will approach the saga from a Traditionalist standpoint, broadly speaking; i.e., from the standpoint of Guénon and Evola. I will touch on some details concerning the relation of the saga to other sources, but I do not aim to provide anything like the sort of account a historian or philologist might give."

https://counter-currents.com/2018/08/an-...ga-part-i/

For more specifically alchemical references, see part xv onwards:

https://counter-currents.com/2026/01/an-...a-part-xv/

but the whole text is well worth reading.