🎨 Amore e morte 👨🏼🎨 Calcedonio Reina 🕰 1881 🖼 Olió su tela 📐 122 x 152 cm To positively influence my judgment towards this work is not only the fact that it was really in the place where the scene of "Love and Death" is set, or the suggestive Catacombs of the Capuchin Convent in Palermo, Italy. But above all it is the originality of its realism and the strong symbolic power hidden behind the apparent normality of the scene: a man and a woman kissing among the coffins and mummies displayed in the catacombs. The short story of a stolen kiss, of a typically youthful goliardic act consumed in an "eversive" way in a sacred place, where it would be forbidden to deal with earthly, carnal joys and it would be more appropriate to reflect on the escatological teaching offered by the environment. Perhaps, man and woman are the protagonists of a clandestine love, of an impossible love, without a future: that stolen kiss is a unique opportunity not to be missed. live, believe in existence, kiss passionately, delude yourself for a moment to be immortal, but – memento mori! – do not forget to belong to death, to the dark destiny that awaits you at the bottom of the gallery of life. omnia vincit amor ------ #kiss #kissinart #weareback #kissinginart #luckytuesday #reina #palermo #stayhome #staysafe #thankshealthheroes #quedateencasa #restezcheztoi #lockdownart #art #amor #love (at Museo Civico Castello Ursino) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPSGghwHjUu/?utm_medium=tumblr