AMOR – Juan Ramón Jiménez El amor, ¿a qué huele? Parece, cuando se ama, que el mundo entero tiene rumor de primavera. Las hojas secas tornan y las ramas con nieve, y él sigue ardiente y joven, oliendo a la rosa eterna. Por todas partes abre guirnaldas invisibles, todos sus fondos son lÃricos -risa o pena, la mujer a su …
Read More »PROVOKING WOMEN AND MEN WITHOUT A FACE – Jack Vettriano, the miner who wanted to be a painter
JACK VETTRIANO – 1/3 – He is a Scottish painter of Italian origin, born in one day in November of 1951, a boy growing up in Scotland. His is a poor family, he has to work since a kid. At the age of 16 years, he is mining apprentice, but he started painting with a set of watercolors, a gift …
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INNER LANDSCAPES – Scotland
FIVE SHADES OF MUSICAL LANDSCAPES
Places of great beauty and beautiful landscapes, are able to give us emotional icons. In these places and landscapes, collecting photographs and postcards, depicting a time of travel, we do not use brushes and colors, but we drink a good wine, along with local dishes. Where the landscape is shaped by the good government of men, born the harmony of …
Read More »BONJOUR TRISTESSE – Novel by Françoise Sagan
The name Sagan, was chosen because it is a character of Proust’s Recherche (Princess Sagan). Françoise Quoirez is the daughter of a southern middle class family-east of France. Françoise Sagan, begins very young to write short services from Italy, who had the title Bonjour Napoli, Bonjour Venice, title that already resembles that of her first great success as a novelist, …
Read More »VENETIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTING, FROM THE GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA
Fifty wonders of artistic creativity (born between 1450 and il1630). There Titian, Bellini and portraits by Tintoretto (but also visitation of Carpaccio). The valuable collection of the exhibition ‘Venetian Renaissance Paintings from the Accademia Gallery’, is in Japan. Until October 10 at the National Art Center in Tokyo (from October 22 to January 15 at the National Museum of Art …
Read More »TWO SISTERS WITH THE NAME OF VENUS – Royal Museums of Turin: Venus meets Venus
Different and equal, the two Venus are reflected into one another, in a unique exhibition. The two works of art have traveled a lot together in the last few months. At the end of the exhibition (opening hours from Tuesday to Sunday (from 9.00 to 19.00 / Thursday extended opening hours until 22.00), one of them will stay in Turin, …
Read More »AUSTERLITZ AND THE PEACE MOUND – Follow Napoleon’s footsteps to Slavkov
There are many places in the Czech Republic that have played a role in the development of European history. One that you should not miss is Slavkov (just Brno). http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/virtual/austerlitz/c_directions.html Not only will you find a splendid Baroque castle with beautiful gardens here, but also the setting of one of Europe’s most famous battles: Austerlitz. Take a trip, back in …
Read More »WHEN IN FRENCH POETRY SPEAKS
THE LANDSCAPE – By Robert Desnos I had dreamt of loving. I go on loving but love is no longer that bouquet of lilacs and roses, charging the forest with their fragrance where a flame rests at the end of branchless pathways. I had dreamt of loving. I go on loving but love is no longer that storm whose lightning …
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