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Narciso che si specchia con amorino Affresco murale dell’insula Occidentalis dell’antica Pompeii - Parco Archeologico

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Cosmè Tura Saint George c. 1460–1465 Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

This Saint George has always struck me as one of the most audacious inventions of the early Renaissance. Tura does not narrate the legend. He reinvents its visual grammar. The saint is not grounded in earthbound realism but suspended in a tense, almost theatrical space, where elegance and violence coexist.

What captivates me is the contradiction. George stands in an improbable balance, almost dancing, dressed in an incandescent pink that defies martial logic. Two swords, an already defeated dragon, and yet no sense of triumphant closure. Instead, there is tension, an unresolved vibration that runs through the figure and the architecture behind him. The red column is not merely structural. It feels symbolic, like a vertical axis holding together this fragile equilibrium between faith, power, and spectacle.

Tura’s Ferrara is a court of intellect and eccentricity. Here I sense echoes of Mantegna’s severity and Squarcione’s discipline, but filtered through a restless imagination that delights in distortion and sharp contours. This is hagiography transformed into a vision. Not comforting, not heroic in the classical sense, but unsettlingly modern.

For me, this Saint George is less about victory over evil and more about the uneasy beauty of control. A saint who conquers not by force alone, but by an almost unnatural refinement. Tura reminds us that sanctity, like art, can be strange, angular, and deeply poetic.

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Larry Rivers (American) - The Greatest Homosexual, c.1964 Oil, collage, graphite and coloured pencil on canvas 203.2 x 154.9 cm Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian, Washington DC. The painting depicts the gay poet Frank O’Hara in a pose based on Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Napoleon in his Study.

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Niobide ferita, un originale greco di 2500 anni fa! (dagli Horti Sallustiani) Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo, Roma.

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Iris!

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