James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Little Rose of Lyme Regis, 1895 Il corpo confuso nei rami della calma e intorno rumori stentati. C’è una bambina in fondo, accanto al caminetto acceso, è seduta su una strana sedia, e non parla, non piange ma muove la testa in cerca di suoni vorrei consigliarvi di uscire, averne il …
Konstantin Makovsky, Girl in burnous, 1870 I’d like to be there while you dry your cheeks, bow your head whilst I’m standing, but we don’t need anymore – for once in a lifetime – to look at something useless, something that should be cruel for its own sake. I’d like you to unavoidably become aware …
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Mi piacerebbe esserci / I’d like to be there Read More »
Franz Von Stuck, Hell, 1908 Four. Ponderous. The chimes of a clock. “Render unto Ceasar… render unto God…” But where’s someone like me to dock? Where to find waiting – a lair? Were I like the ocean of ocean little, on the tiptoes of waves I’d rise, I’d strain, a tide, to caress the moon. …
Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933), Girl with yellow shawl You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I’d plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I’d ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my …
Anna Akhmatova – Ah, tu pensavi che anch’io fossi una / You thought I was that type Read More »
Frank Cadogan Cowper, The ugly duckling, 1950 Greetings, you girl with neither a little nose, handsome feet, black little eyes long fingers, a dry mouth, and truly tongue not exceedingly elegant. Sweetheart of a Formian debtor, does the province say that you are beautiful? Is our Lesbia compared with you? O tasteless and crude age! …
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. …
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