Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, 1559 Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. …
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The lovers, 1917 Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word, the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, and some when …
John Collier, The Sleeping Beauty, 1921 Spirit of Beauty, tarry yet awhile! Although the cheating merchants of the mart with iron roads profane our lovely isle, and break on whirling wheels the limbs of Art, Ay! though the crowded factories beget the blindworm Ignorance that slays the soul, O tarry yet! Spirito di Bellezza, resta …
Oscar Wilde – Spirito di Bellezza / Spirit of Beauty Read More »
Artemisia Gentileschi,Venus and Cupid, c. 1626 O for one midnight and as paramour the Venus of the little Melian farm! O that some antique statue for one hour might wake to passion, and that I could charm the Dawn at Florence from its dumb despair mix with those mighty limbs and make that giant breast …
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright, best-known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) . He was a spokesman for the Aesthetic movement, which advocated art for art’s sake. Wilde was imprisoned charged with “gross indecency” with men.
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