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Non ho idea di come si stia senza provare emozioni profonde.

Anche quando non sento niente,

lo sento completamente.

-Sylvia Plath

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Amsterdam in the Snow (1874)-Claude Monet

Canal in Amsterdam (1874)-Claude Monet

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Che tu ci sia o non ci sia ormai è la stessa cosa comunque sia io ho la nostalgia.

(Patrizia Cavalli)

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Camille on the Beach in Trouville (1870) -Claude Monet

Camille Sitting on the Beach at Trouville (1870)-Claude Monet

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Hylas and the Nymphs (1896) -John William Waterhouse

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Storm at Belle-Ile (1886)-Claude Monet

The Manneport Seen from the East (1885)-Claude Monet

The Manneport, Etretat, the Porte d'Aval (1885)-Claude Monet

The Manneport, Seen from Below (1883)-Claude Monet

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A very daring composition, this is one of Waterhouse's most unusual, and consequently most striking, oil paintings. The corpse is dramatically foreshortened, and the snow contrasts with Eulalia's naked flesh – the 12-year-old girl seems singularly out of place for a Waterhouse picture. His choice of configuration – situating the corpse across the front and leaving so much of the central canvas unoccupied – was risky but it worked: by placing all the background figures in the distance, he concentrated the viewer's gaze on the naked body. The nudity was also groundbreaking for Waterhouse – and something that could have laid him open to criticism – but his sensitive handling of the subject, the youth of the saint, and the historical context of the painting allowed him to escape the critics' pen. The eye is also led to the murdered girl by the angle of the Roman guard's spear, pointing to the ropes that had bound her to the stake. According to legend, the snow was believed to have been sent by God as a shroud to cover the saint's nakedness; and the dove, seen flying upwards near the crowd of mourners, indicative of Eulalia's soul flying up to Heaven, was said to have flown out of her mouth.

Saint Eulalia (1885) -Waterhouse