Francesco Hayez, The secret accusation,1847 Wearing black mantillas, she thinks the world is tiny and the heart immense. Wearing black mantillas. She thinks that tender sighs and cries disappear into currents of wind. Wearing black mantillas. The door was left open, and at dawn the entire sky emptied onto her balcony. Ay, yayayayay, wearing black …
Edward Burne-Jones, The Briar wood, c. 1890 There are four knights with water swords and dark is the night. The four swords will strike your heart and the roses’ world. Don’t descend into the garden. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Ci sono quattro cavalieri con spade d’acqua e buia è la notte. Le quattro spade …
Federico Garcia Lorca – Ci sono quattro cavalieri / There are four knights Read More »
Giovanni Boldini, The red café, 1887 Behind still glasses girls play with their laughter. (In empty pianos, acrobatic spiders.) Girls talk with their boyfriends waving their tight braids. (World of the fan of the kerchief and of the hand.) Boys reply by drawing wings and flowers with black capes. Dietro le immobili vetrate le ragazze …
Federico Garcia Lorca – The street of the silent Read More »
Rene Magritte, The collective invention, 1934 Future rose and temperate vein Amethyst of yesterday and breeze of now, I want to forget them! Man and fish in their elements, under floating things, Awaiting their night in the seaweed or in the chair, I want to forget them! I. Myself alone! Tinkering at a salver which …
Salvador Dalì, Remorse or Sphinx embedded in the sand, 1931 When I die, bury me with my guitar beneath the sand. When I die, among orange trees and mint plants. When I die, bury me, if you would, inside a weather vane. When I die! Quando io morirò, seppellitemi con la mia chitarra sotto la …
Adolf Hering, Death and the maiden, 1900 In the eyes boundless paths unravel – they are two crossroads of shadow. Death always comes from those hidden fields (gardener cutting teardrop’s blooms). Pupils lack horizons. We lose ourselves in them as in the pure forest. In the castle of you will go without coming back there …
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