Image of the Week 014

This week's image is Narcissus by Caravaggio.

Caravaggio, Narcissus, 1599-1600.

Narcissus symbolizes the soul falling in love with perceptible beauty and neglecting to contemplate spiritual beauty. From an esoteric point of view, this myth is a variant of "love sickness"—the body is consumed by an erotic longing for its own likeness.