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Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim de Fiore, and Gioacchino da Fiore, was an Italian mystic, theologian and philosopher of history, a great medieval thinker with a beautiful symbolic imagination.
Fiore was a prolific writer and explored the hidden meaning of the life of the apostles and the scriptures. At the end of the twelfth century Joachim had a high international reputation.
After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he became a Cistercian monk and by 1177 had become abbot at Corazzo, Sicily. He retired to the mountains to lead a contemplative life, and in 1196 he founded the Order of San Giovanni in Fiore. In his Book of the Harmony of the New and Old Testaments, Fiore set forth a theory of history and traced correspondences in the Old and New Testaments. In "An Exposition of the Apocalypse" he explored the symbols of the Antichrist, and in "The Ten-String Psalter" he set forth his doctrine of the Holy Trinity. A man of vivid imagination, he was proclaimed a prophet and condemned as a heretic.
Harald Slott-Möller (Danish: Harald Slott-Møller) or Georg Harald Slott-Möller was a Danish symbolist painter.
He received his artistic education at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. As an adherent of the symbolist direction of painting in Denmark, together with his wife Agnes Slott-Möller, he participated in the creation of the Free Style group. Harald was also a master painter of porcelain and earthenware and worked as a designer at the earthenware factory Aluminia.
