Charles Baudelaire – Icarus
Carlo Saraceni, The Fall of Icarus, 1608 ca But, as for me, my arms are broken from trying to embrace clouds… Quanto a me ho le braccia a pezzi a furia di afferrare nuvole… Go back to album – C. Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire – Teoria della civiltà autentica / Theory of the true civilization
Frida Kahlo, Moses, 1945 Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. Teoria della civiltà autentica. Non è nel gas, o nel vapore, oppure nei tavolini medianici: è nella diminuzione delle tracce del peccato …
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Charles Baudelaire – Epilogue
K. Korovin (1861-1939), Le Pont Neuf, Paris With quiet heart, I climbed the hill, from which one can see, the city, complete, hospitals, brothels, purgatory, hell, prison, where every sin flowers, at our feet. You know well, Satan, patron of my distress, I did not trudge up there to vainly weep, but like an old …
Charles Baudelaire – The Balcony
Egon Schiele, Lovers, 1914 I know the art of evoking happy moments, And live again our past, my head laid on your knees. Conosco bene l’arte di evocare i momenti felici: rannicchiato fra i tuoi ginocchi, rivivo il passato. Go back to album – C. Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire – Moesta et errabunda
Horace Vernet, The maiden’s lament, 1820 ca Here the mud is made with our tears! Qui il fango è fatto delle nostre lacrime! Go back to album – C. Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire – Il Ritratto / The Portrait
Johann Heinrich Füssli, Amor and Psyche, 1810 Disease and Death make ashesof all the fire that flamed for us.Of those wide eyes, so fervent and tender,of that mouth in which my heart was drowned,of those kisses potent as dittany,of those transports more vivid than sunbeams,what remains? It is frightful, O my soul!Nothing but a faint …