Antonio Mancini, Lo studio, 1875 Don’t marvel at my sadness!And don’t ask me about it.I wouldn’t know how to answer youexcept with vain words,my God, so vainthat I’d break down in tears as if I were about to die.My tears would have the airof counting a rosary of sadnessbefore my soul, sorrowful seven times over.But …
Edward Atkinson Hornel, Idyl in spring, 1905 All that is leftof the magic of the fair:is this little trumpet,of blue and green tin,blown by a girlas she walks, barefoot, through the fields.But within its forced noteare all the clowns, white ones and red ones,the band all dressed in gaudy gold,the merry-go-round, the calliope, the lights.Just …
Corrado Govoni – La trombettina / The little trumpet Read More »
Frans Floris, The Judgment of Paris, c. 1550 If I were fire, I’d burn the world away; If I were wind, I’d blow it down; If I were water, I’d let it drown; If I were God, I’d deep-six it today.If I were Pope, what would make me gay? To ransack every Christian town. If …
Cecco Angiolieri – S’i’ fosse foco / If I were fire Read More »
William Merritt Chase, Hide and seek, 1888 Ricordi dell’infanziaaver freddo nel silenziosentirmiguardata dall’ indifferenzati rivedo, gioventùpiccola, ripiegata su te stessaseduta a raccogliere le vocidi un’ anima quasi dimenticata. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album – Various
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Grape Picker, 1875 Rose vermiglienei campi fioritile viti che offronouve matureai nostri panieripoiché ciascun annobuttando agli invernile vesti appassiterinasce agghindatodi verdi fogliamipoiché ogni cosaalla mano si offreaffinché ne godasfogliamo la rosae pestiamo l’uvapoiché il tempo rincorrecon sforzo costanteieri, la giovinezzastasera la vecchiaiae domani la morteche strano misteroun uomo che passaquel giorno, solosulla …
Egon Schiele, Mother and Child, 1908 Grab this mercury, this cold gum, this honey, this sphere of arid glass; carefully measure our baby’s head and not twisting his imperceptible foot now; in your nipple you must now change an extended continent of lamps, the obsessive breathing of critical gardens, the belly’s lazy whales, nettles and …
Edoardo Sanguineti – Afferra questo mercurio / Grab this mercury Read More »
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