I died for beauty (pt. 2)
(Oil on canvas, 2025)
This diptych is based on an Emily dickinson poem:
i died for Beauty
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth,
was lain In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly “Why I failed”?
“For Beauty”, I replied -
“And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Brethren are”, He said -
And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night -
We talked between the Rooms -
Until the Moss had reached our lips -
And covered up - Our names -
#art #beauty #artwork
I died for beauty (pt. 1)
(Oil on canvas, 2025)
This diptych is based on an Emily dickinson poem: i died for Beauty
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly “Why I failed”?
“For Beauty”, I replied -
“And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Brethren are”, He said -
And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night —
We talked between the Rooms -
Until the Moss had reached our lips -
And covered up - Our names -
#art #beauty #artwork
A memory of Eurydice
(Oil on canvas, 2025)
Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus, tragically died from a snakebite shortly after her wedding. Overcome with grief, Orpheus journeyed to the underworld and charmed Hades and Persephone with his music, convincing them to let Eurydice return to life.
The gods granted his wish on one condition: Orpheus had to walk ahead and not look back at her until they both reached the surface. As he neared the exit, consumed by doubt, he turned around too soon. In that instant, Eurydice vanished forever, pulled back into the realm of the dead.
Model: @cavallarogaia
#art #painting #beauty
Moon
(Oil on canvas, 2025)
“The Moon was but a Chin of Gold
A Night or two ago—
And now she turns Her perfect Face
Upon the World below—“ Emily Dickinson
Vanitas
(Oil on canvas, 2022)
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.
Teiresias
(105cm x 160cm, oil on canvas, 2025)
Tiresias was a blind oracle. He/she possessed the ability to foresee the future and lived seven lifetimes.
Notably, he was transformed into a woman as a punishment by Hera after hitting two mating snakes in the forest with a stick. He lived as a woman for seven years in which he developed an understanding of human nature from both masculine and feminine perspectives.
In a different story he was punished with blindness by Hera because he sided with zeus in an argument between the two.
This painting is currently viewable in Florence in museo galleria Bellini
“I prophesy of life, who live with death;
Of joy, being sad; of sunlight, who am blind;
Of man, whose ways are alien from mankind
And his lips are not parted with man’s breath;
I am a word out of the speechless years,
The tongue of time, that no man sleeps who hears.”
#dark #painting #art
Aion
(80cm x100cm, oil on canvas, 2025)
Aion is a Greek god who personifies Eternity, reoccurrence, unlimited and cyclical time. He is often depicted visually as a youth standing inside a circle with his body entwined by a snake.
Aion represents the counterpart to Cronos, the god of linear time.
You can see this painting in person in Florence until the 6th of December in Museo galleria Bellini.
“Everything goes, everything returns, the wheel of existence rolls for ever. Everything dies, everything blossoms anew; the year of existence runs on for ever. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; the same house of existence builds itself for ever. Everything departs, everything meets again; the ring of existence is true to itself for ever. Existence begins in every instant, the ball There rolls around every Here. The middle is everywhere. The path of eternity is crooked.”
-Nietzsche
#symbolism #art #painting
Semele
(50cm x30cm, 2025, oil on canvas)
Zeus fell in love with Semele while watching her sacrifice a bull on his altar and visited her many times afterwards. When Semele became pregnant, Hera found out and jealous of her husband’s affair, set out a plan to punish Semele.
Hera appeared in a different form to Semele and they became friends; Semele later confided to the goddess about her affair with Zeus, but Hera made her doubt about it. So, Semele decided to ask Zeus to grant her a wish, and he took an oath on the river Styx that he would give her anything. She asked that he appear to her in all his glory; Zeus was forced to comply. However, mortals could not look upon Zeus without bursting into flames, which is what happened to Semele.
Zeus managed to save the unborn baby by sewing it inside his thigh; a few months later, god Dionysus was born, who managed to save his mother from the Underworld and brought her to Mount Olympus, where she became the goddess Thyone.
You can visit this painting now in Florence in Galleria Museo Bellini
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