Exemplars
Makers and thinkers of many ages and lands, and works the Order holds dear. Those honoured from the three inheritances appear under their own periods.
Exemplars
Makers and thinkers of many ages and lands, and works the Order holds dear. Those honoured from the three inheritances appear under their own periods.
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq The translator of Baghdad · 809–873 · Baghdad
- Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji · c. 973–c. 1014 · Heian Japan
- Hildegard of Bingen The living light · 1098–1179 · The Rhineland
- Ibn Arabi The greatest master · 1165–1240 · Murcia to Damascus
- Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy · c. 1265–1321 · Florence and Ravenna
- Kabir The weaver of Benares · 15th century · Benares
- Dara Shikoh The mingling of the two oceans · 1615–1659 · Mughal India
- Zhuangzi The cook, the woodworker and the butterfly · c. 369–286 BC · China
- William Shakespeare Airy nothing given a name · 1564–1616 · Stratford and London
- Johann Sebastian Bach Soli Deo gloria · 1685–1750 · Thuringia and Leipzig
- William Blake The maker of a mythology · 1757–1827 · London
- All Religions are One Blake’s seven principles of the Poetic Genius · England · c. 1788
- The Laocoön Blake’s last word on art · England · c. 1826–27
- Thomas Taylor The Platonist · 1758–1835 · London
- Katsushika Hokusai The old man mad about drawing · 1760–1849 · Edo
- Mary Shelley The Modern Prometheus · 1797–1851 · London
- Elias Lönnrot The gatherer of the Kalevala · 1802–1884 · Finland and Karelia
- William Morris The dignity of the hand · 1834–1896 · London and Kelmscott
- Ernst Cassirer The symbolic animal · 1874–1945 · Hamburg and exile
- Carl Gustav Jung The mind and its images · 1875–1961 · Zurich
- Zora Neale Hurston Keeper of stories · 1891–1960 · Florida and New York
- J. R. R. Tolkien Sub-creation · 1892–1973 · Oxford
- Joseph Campbell The hero with a thousand faces · 1904–1987 · New York
- Alan Lomax The song collector · 1915–2002 · United States and the world