The birth of Venus
Collection of artworks about The birth of Venus
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Giambattista Marino – Onde dorate / Golden waves
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 …
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Guido Gozzano – Vas voluptatis
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 …
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XIX
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 …
Torquato Tasso – Se ‘l mio core è con voi / If my heart is with you
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 …
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Sandro Penna – Amore, gioventù / Love, youth
Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, c. 1508 Love, youth, joyful words, what shines on you? What shrivels you up? A smell as dried shit is still lingering in the air along the sun-filled hedges. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Amore, gioventù, liete parole, cosa splende su voi e vi dissecca? Resta un odore come merda secca lungo le …