Francisco Goya, The giant, 1818 If you ever behold a giant, first of all check the position of the sun – to see whether or not it is the shadow of a pygmy. Chi vede un gigante esamini prima la posizione del sole e faccia attenzione che non sia l’ombra di un pigmeo. Go back …
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1627 Verso l’interno si volge la via misteriosa. I mondi dell’eternità sono in noi o da nessuna parte. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds. Go back to album – Novalis
Domenico Beccafumi, Annunciation, 1546 The times are all so wretched! The heart so full of cares! The future, far outstretched, a spectral horror wears. Wild terrors creep and hover with foot so ghastly soft! Our souls black midnights cover with mountains piled aloft. Firm props like reeds are waving; for trust is left no stay; …
Sebastiano del Piombo, Pietà, c. 1517 Into the bosom of the earth, Out of the Light’s dominion, Death’s pains are but a bursting forth, Sign of glad departure. Swift in the narrow little boat, Swift to the heavenly shore we float. Blessed be the everlasting Night, And blessed the endless slumber. We are heated by …
Paul Delvaux, The forest, 1948 Must the morning always return? Will the despotism of the earthly never cease? Unholy activity consumes the angel-visit of the Night. Will the time never come when Love’s hidden sacrifice shall burn eternally? To the Light a season was set; but everlasting and boundless is the dominion of the Night. …
Novalis (pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) was a poet and writer of Early German Romanticism, interested in mysticism and philosophy.
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