Alessandro Varotari, called Padovanino (1588 – 1648), Venus And Mars If my heart is with you, as it wishes, where is my soul? I believe it is with thought: and the wandering thought is with the beautiful image; and the beautiful image of your beauty is in the mind alive and true and present and …
Torquato Tasso – Se ‘l mio core è con voi / If my heart is with you Read More »
Bernardo Strozzi, Old Woman at the Mirror, c. 1615 Zeus gave Tithonus the evil gift of immortal Eld,which is even worse than woeful Death. Perpetuo malediede Titone a Zeus:vecchiezza, più tetra della morte. Go back to album – Greek and Roman
Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), Woman with a Mirror, c. 1515 I’m beautiful again and this may be my last autumn. More beautiful than when he admired me under the sun, beautiful and idle to his absent eyes – like a leaf made of shadow. But some nights, into silence that no longer upsets tears, I feel …
Sibilla Aleramo – Sono tornata bella / I’m beautiful again Read More »
Arnold Bocklin, The Surf, 1883 Words – glassthat unfaithfullyreflects my sky –I thought of youafter sunsetin a darkened streetwhen a pane fell to the stonesand its fragments at lengthspread shattered light – (Transl. by N. Benson) Parole – vetriche infedelmenterispecchiate il mio cielo-di voi pensaidopo il tramontoin una oscura stradaquando sui ciottoli unavetrata caddeed i …
Benjamin West, Echo and Narcissus, 1805 Dagli stagni salgono nuvole beate; finirà anche il fuoco dell’aria nel fermo cuore. Cara giovinezza; è tardi. Ma posso amare tutto della terra in luce di cieli in tenebra di vento; e, su ogni parvenza, la donna che mi venne non è gran tempo, al cui riso mi specchio, …
Giovanni Bellini, Young Woman at her Toilet, 1515 And see, buds break out of the tree: a newer green in the grass eases the heart: the tree seemed already dead, bowed on the slope And all I know of miracle; and I am this watery cloud that reflected today in the ditches, the more blue, …
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