Category: Melancholy of the ancient world

  • Au bord des lèvres, l’âme!

    A poet once said that a kiss is a way of savoring the soul of the beloved, just on the edge of the lips.

  • Wounded To Death

    According to the myth, the daughters of Niobe, queen of Tebe, were killed by the Gods as punishment for hybris, or lack of modesty. The legend claims that Niobe was too proud of having more sons and daughters than the mother of Apollo and Artemis. However, I personally believe that the myth can be interpreted…

  • Wounded To Death

    According to the myth, the daughters of Niobe, queen of Tebe, were killed by the Gods as punishment for hybris, or lack of modesty. The legend claims that Niobe was too proud of having more sons and daughters than the mother of Apollo and Artemis. However, I personally believe that the myth can be interpreted…

  • Beauty Will Save The World

    Guardi a capo chino per terra e la mano sembra disfare la cinta. Perché? Il pudore è alieno da Afrodite: un cenno del capo dica, senza parole, che ti pieghi al volere della dea.

  • Humana Pietas

    Of all the Michelangelo’s masterpieces, this Pietà is the one I love most. It is an unfinished work (Michelangelo died before completing it) but to my eyes it is perfect, as it truly represents the human state of being in this world with our incompleteness, imperfections, distortions, imbalances. For this very reason deserving no less…

  • Spinning The Thread Of Fate

    Melancholy Of The Ancient World

  • Perhance To Dream

    Melancholy Of The Ancient World

  • Metamorphoses

    Metamorphosis is the way the human beings exist, never definitive in their shapes and always in search for significance in a rush towards the end. It is not possible to think of personal identity other than as the arbitrary, though necessary, meanings that everyone associates to that uninterrupted flow of images, words, memories, affections that…