Guercino, Landscape with Bathing Women, c. 1621 Glory of expanded noon when the trees give up no shade, and more and more the look of things is turning bronze, from excess light. Above, the sun—and a dry shore; so my day is not yet done: the finest hour is over the low wall, closed off …
Eugenio Montale – Gloria del disteso mezzogiorno / Glory of Expanded Noon Read More »
Anthony van Dyck, Self-Portrait with a Sunflower, c. 1632 Bring me the sunflower so I can transplant it here in my own field burned by salt-spray, so it can show all day to the blue reflection of the sky the anxiety of its golden face. Darker things yearn for a clarity, bodies fade and exhaust …
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1573 To spend the afternoon, absorbed and pale, beside a burning garden wall; to hear, among the stubble and the thorns, the blackbirds cackling and the rustling snakes. On the cracked earth or in the vetch to spy on columns of red ants now crossing, now dispersing, atop their miniature heaps. To …
Eugenio Montale – Meriggiare pallido e assorto / To Spend the Afternoon Read More »
Andrea Mantegna, The Agony in the Garden, c.1460 Again and again I have seen life’s evil: it was the strangled brook, still gurgling, it was the curling of the shriveled leaf, it was the fallen horse. I have known no good except the miracle that reveals the divine Indifference: it was the statue in the …
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet (from Genoa), also writer, editor and translator. He had received honorary degrees from several universities and had been appointed in the Italian Senate.He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. His poetry explores solitude, nature and the “little” and “insignificant” things, using the concept of the objective correlative.
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