Andrey Remnev, The Unplaiting of the Hair, 1997 Is it true, prince, that you once declared that “beauty would save the world”? Great Heaven! The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! (…) What kind of beauty will save the world? E’ vero, Principe, che una volta avete detto che il mondo …
Fyodor Dostoevsky – La bellezza salverà il mondo / Beauty will save the world Read More »
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spring (detail), 1894 The power of the good has taken refuge in the nature of the beautiful. La potenza del bene si è rifugiata nella natura del bello. Go back to album – Greek and Roman
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Evening mood, 1882 Slowly the moon is rising out of the ruddy haze,divesting herself of her golden shift, and soemerging white and exquisite; and I in amazesee in the sky before me, a woman I did not knowI loved, but there she goes and her beauty hurts my heart;I follow her down the …
Jacopo Zucchi, The Bath of Bathsheba, c. 1570 Dal pavimento di musaico, snelli colonnati surgevano a spirale s’attorcevano in forma vegetale li acanti d’oro sotto i capitelli. Quivi posava un vaso – trionfale sculptura greca – e ai dì lontani e belli di Venere accorrean schiave a drappelli, per colmarlo di mirra e d’aromale. E …
John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the nymphs,1896 To me it is sweet, bent forward to survey the grate’s hoarse embers, when the day is through, to me it is sweet to entertain the few women who smiled on me along my way. Trashumanized already, fleshlessly they rise… The little ones, and those who’ve gone so …
Jean Honoré Fragonard, Diana and Endymion, c. 1753 O you, far colder, whiter than she who makes less fair the stars with shining there: her purest silver cannot dim nor any cloud, or rain or wind, your sweet brightness, lovely eyes. Would you but turn to me, with delight, I should be happy, and my …
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