Tag: art

  • Emotional Patterns

    Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain

  • Ecstasy and Pains

    Pain turns into ecstasy in this Bernini’s sculpture of martyr San Lorenzo

  • God of the Seas

    Poseidon, Neptune for the Romans, was god of the seas. Often depicted emerging from the waters with his curly hair still wet, as seen in this ancient sculpture found in the river Rhodanus.

  • 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.

  • Indifference Is Complicity

    Truly, I live in dark times! What kind of times are they, when talking about trees is almost a crime because it implies silence about so many horrors?

  • Pax Vobis?

    Guernica is out there again, just now. No room for indifference, keep open your eyes.

  • Souvenirs of Rome

    CAUTIONS! THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN CENSORED BY ALGORITHMS! Emperors in the age of their technical reproducibility

  • 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…

  • 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…