This is a lovely picture of Hildegard von Bingen:
http://www2.csbsju.edu/museum/graphics/beuron/hildegard.jpg

She is bathed in light as her eyes look upward, not at the light, which is coming from the upper left, but above her, perhaps into her third eye or at the flame that rises above her head. She has a quill in hand and a lyre at her feet to show her dual talents, and the entire picture denotes that these talents were divinely inspired.