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Echo and Narcissus

 

 

 

 

 

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,

 

Which like two spirits do suggest me still ;

 

The better angel is a man right fair,

 

The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

 

 

 

　　Sonnets  144, 1-4,  W. Shakespeare

Portraits in Leonardo's works

 

 

 

 

 

  Among Leonardo's activities as a painter during his first stay in Milan we must

 

include his portraits, which several sourses mention clearly. The problem was one

 

of identifying a certain number of portraits which could confirm to Leonardo's

 

figurative tendencies in this period. It must be said that the Lombard tradition of

 

portraiture was quite distinct from the Florentine. The latter was celebratory and,

 

in some instances, synthetic, whereas Lombard portraiture was realistic, analytical,

 

paying attention to style of dress, coiffure, and to accessory elements in general.

Dickens' view

 

 

 

 

  The beauty of the Piazza, on which it stands,

 

with its clusters of exquisite columms and its gushing fountains --- so fresh,

 

so broad, and free, and beautiful --- nothing can exaggerate.

 

 

　・・・　Pictures from Italy　：　Charles Dickens

Stabat Mater

 

 

 

Stabat mater dolorosa

 

Iuxta crucem lacrimosa,

 

     Dum pendebat filius,

 

Cuius animam gementem,

 

Contristantem et dolentem

 

     Pertransivit gladius.

 

 

 

 

 

母は悲しみに満ちて立ち尽くす。

 

十字架の脇に涙ぐみ

 

　　　ひとり子が吊り下げられている、その間

 

うめき声の絶えぬその子の心臓を

 

人を嘆かせ苦しませる心臓を

 

　　　剣が刺し貫きつつ

Noli Me Tangere

 

 

　Resurrection, Noli me tangere  ：　Ｇｉｏｔｔｏ

 

 

 

 

　I know that He exists.

 

  Somewhere --- in Silence ---

 

  He has hid his rare life

 

  From our gross eyes.

 

 

　338　：　E. Dickinson