Julia Cleave

Julia Cleave is an independent scholar with a special interest in the Pythagorean, Hermetic and Christian Mystery traditions as they are to be found, still largely unacknowledged, in Renaissance and Early Modern art and literature. Her previous lectures at Temenos, have included studies of works by Verrocchio, Leonardo, Botticelli, Giorgione and Poussin, and of three plays by Shakespeare. Her essay: ‘An alchemical reading of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra’ is available on the Temenos Academy website. She is a Fellow of the Academy and a member of the Council and Academic Board.