El Greco, The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (detail), 1611 I’ll go back down the way we came a while ago when never more beautiful the moon startled you. There remains to me a city close to sleep in earliest springtime. O fire that now you are fading, O confused ashes of countryside that darkens …
Vittorio Sereni – Viaggio di andata e ritorno / Journey There and Back Read More »
Auguste Leveque, Summer idyll, 1918 Alas how what returns on the leafy mid-July Algerian hillside of you in the tall grass lain down is the voice not ingenuous nor even perverse bewailing the heat and the untamed mouth but hoarse a little and tender only… (Transl. by P. Robinson) Ahimè come ritorna sulla frondosa a …
Marianne Stokes, The passing train, 1890 At the final tumult of the lines peace comes to you, where the city in a flight of bridges and avenues hurls itself into the country and those who pass don’t know about you just as you don’t know about the echoes of the hunts touching you. Peace perhaps …
Silvestro Lega, The betrothed, 1869 The splendid the delirious rain has eased, kisses us with rare final droplets. Outside again love is close by me and friendship. And that murmur, till just then almost imploring, from the darkened portico rumbles at my back now, breaks from my past: faces unaltered they’ll be, same as ever, …
Angelo Morbelli, Le guglie del Duomo di Milano, 1915 At the end of July when from under pergolas of a bar in San Siro through railings and arches you glimpse some wedge of the sun-filled stadium when the great empty bowl amazes mirroring wasted time and it seems that exactly there a year comes to …
Vittorio Sereni – Altro compleanno / Another Birthday Read More »
Jacques-Louis David, The death of Marat, 1793 Death, we know, unseals everything. And in fact, I was returning, the door was ajar the shutters barely drawn. And in fact I’d only been dead a while, unmade in a few hours. But I saw what surely the dead don’t see: the house visited by my recent …
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