BEATO ANGELICO pintaba tremendos cuadros.
BEATO ANGELICO Tebaide 1418-20c Uffizi
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies ? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Duino Elegies”
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies ? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Duino Elegies”
Annabel Sleeping, 1987, Lucian Freud
Size: 38.8x56 cm
Medium: oil, canvas
¿Quién, si gritara, me escucharía entre los ángeles?
jerarquías? e incluso si uno de ellos
me presionó contra su corazón: me consumiría
en esa abrumadora existencia. Porque la belleza no es nada
pero el comienzo del terror, que todavía somos capaces de soportar,
y estamos tan impresionados porque serenamente desdeña
para aniquilarnos Cada ángel es aterrador.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, de "Duino Elegies"
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