FEATURES: Images of Eremitism
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Photographs of hermits
Galleries of religious hermits: modern Christian hermits, Western and Orthodox, and modern Eastern (Asian) hermits: Buddhist/Taoist and Hindu/Jain.
Separate galleries of religious hermits: the hermit Lykov family of Siberia; hermits of Freedom or Madness
film.
Galleries of wilderness hermits include Everglades,
LIFE
magazine, and
Miscellany
(largest set).
Gallery of women hermits: hermits, solitaries, thinkers, writers, and religious.
Hermits in art
Galleries include Western and Eastern
(Asian),
Western galleries: St.
Paul & St. Antony, Temptations of St. Antony, St. Jerome
as hermit, medieval images,
and classical images.
Renaissance etchings of Jan and Raphael Sadeler include their Solitudo:
sive Vitae patrum eremicolarum, Solitudo: sive
Vitae feminarum
anachoritarum (women) & Oraculum Anchoreticum.
Plus an art
Miscellany.
Hermit dwellings
Religious/spiritual: caves, cells, and kellions.
Modern: caves, cabins, and cottages.
Ornamental: caves, huts, and hermitages (from Gordon Campbell's
The Hermit in the Garden book.
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