At the mirror – 2
Collection of artworks about Mirrors
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Elio Pecora – M’attende nello specchio / He waits for me in the mirror
Claudio Bonichi, Conversazione interrotta, 2010 He waits for me in the mirror,as in an old tale about biased insanity,rarely does he look at me– I also know well the contempt he interchanges with fear –from the beginning we are together and we’ll certainly be until the last closing,when we leavefor that nothing which belongs to us …
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Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 268
Gregorio Lazzarini, Rinaldo and Armida, c. 1690 As if it were Proteus or a magician, beauty shifts its shape and changes image: comes forth now white, now black, in two beautiful eyes, now gentle, now savage; now in sweet sapphires hues it goes on soft and pleasant tours with Love, now with pearls, now purple, …
James Joyce – Ricordo degli attori nello specchio a mezzanotte / A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
Honoré Daumier, The Drama, 1860 They mouth love’s language. Gnashthe thirteen teethyour lean jaws grin with. Lashyour itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.Love’s breath in you is stale, worded or sung,as sour as cat’s breath,harsh of tongue.This grey that stareslies not, stark skin and bone.leave greasy lips their kissing. Nonewill choose her what …
Gerard de Nerval – Viale del Lussemburgo / A path in the Luxembourg Gardens
Walter Crane, Art and Life, 1907 She passed me, the young lady,lively and swift as a swallow,in her hand a shining lily,from her mouth a new song follows.She’s perhaps the only one in the landwhose heart to mine would react,who, taking my doleful hand with but a look would me impact!But no, my youth is felled…Farewell, …
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Tristan Tzara – Le nuvole i panni lavati
Édouard Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882 Le nuvole i panni lavati e nell’angolo la luna è rosa hai lasciato la casa e provo pena – casa del dolore abbandonata fanciulla beneducata e modesta non ti va di essere sempre annoiata vai nei caffè soffocati, prometti troppo con questa posa hai avuto un bambino e …