Venus And Adonis
Collection of artworks about Venus And Adonis
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Venus Anadyomene, c. 1848 Golden waves – and those waves were hair – were one day ploughed by a little ship of ivory. A hand, also of ivory, held the ship as it sailed, preciously errant, here and there.And as it divided the quivering and beautiful billowswith the straightest of furrows,Amor gathered up the gold of those …
Giambattista Marino – Onde dorate / Golden waves Read More »
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 …
Agnolo Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time), c. 1545 Quella candida mano che le parole scrisse, l’aventò poi volando e mi trafisse: ed io medesimo accolsi le dolci parolette, anzi pur le saette, temprate nel dolcissimo veleno, e ponendo le fiamme e il foco in seno d’arder mi piacque …
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 »
Create a website and earn with Altervista - Disclaimer - Report Abuse - Privacy Policy - Customize advertising tracking