We stand before a canvas once touched by the fingers of both Giorgione and Titian.
I know that restorers’ fingers may long since have erased all traces of the two masters’ palms,
still it’s difficult not to be moved.
~ Adam Zagajewski, Slight Exaggeration: An Essay
Notes:
- Painting 1 (‘La Vecchia / The Old /Woman’, c.1506) by Giorgione (1478-1510), an Italian painter of the Venetian school in the High Renaissance from Venice.
- Painting 2 (The Entombment, 1559) by Titian (1488-1576) an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
- Related Posts: Adam Zagajewski
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Thank you for sharing.
As an unrepentant art historian, I gotta say that the thought of being close to anything touched by these masters makes me swoon (says the girl who sat down and sobbed before Géricault’s ‘The Raft of the Medusa’).
Had no idea you were a art historian. And love “swoon”. So great.
(note to self: is there no bottom to her talent well?)
Yep, both of my degrees are in art history. 🙂 And you’re very kind, pal.
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Wow!! …. ‘We stand before a canvas once touched by the fingers of both Giorgione and Titian.’
Yes!
You should stand before the Cheese and accept it into your life, for cheese is and art form of its own. Join my and become a fellow cheeseist!
Yes, even the Mona Lisa has been restored twice that I know of. But yes, hard not to be moved, nonetheless.
So true…
powerful
beautiful sentiment and appreciation to bring us in to enjoying art and those who amaze us with their gifts! And last night, The painting ‘Salvator Mundi’ by Leonardo da Vinci at Christie’s sold for almost a half a billion $!
Amazing. Right?!?!?
I guess the buyer Really appreciated the beauty! I thought maybe a Saudi Prince because Jesus is holding a globe of the world–remember their ritual when Trump visited?
Yes!
I love this post David. Thank you.
I was moved by it too Micheline. Thank you.