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    Love

    By Jp. A. Calosse

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    A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to create the masterworks of their life.
    From Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love to Brancusi’s The Kiss, the treatment of love has changed along with time and style, but remains, in the end, an everlasting universal language. This book illustrates love in all its strength and variety.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateNov 14, 2023
    ISBN9781781609781
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      Its a slight little book. Something you might give to a friend 'just because', not quite big enough for a proper present. Nice though, especially if the recipient is in love.

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    Love - Jp. A. Calosse

    The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.

    Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

    Foreword

    The representations of Love in Western art are unnumerable: loving emotion, agonies of the soul, melancholy … Love is an inexhaustible subject, handled in an original way according to the perception and lives of the artists and the writers of any time.

    This work chooses to give a major place to the emotion, to praise the loving happiness. By representing the theme through a hundred and twenty pieces extending from the Middle Ages to the end of the Modern period, it proves the timelessness of love.

    We invite you to admire the legendary sculptures such as the Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne, Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss or Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss. Among other mythical paintings, you will find Antoine Watteau’s The Pilgrimage on the Island of Cythera, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing or still Marc Chagall’s The Lovers in Blue. Every major artist who has celebrated the feeling of love is gathered here under your eyes.

    And what is more appropriate than poetry to illustrate this picturesque panorama? From Ovid to Verlaine, the biggest names of the literature knew how to make Eros speak.

    In prose or in verse, their texts crossed the time by revealing one thousand and one faces of love. From Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to Beaudelaire’s A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair, passing by Goethe’s To the Distant One, this book invites you thus for a discovery or for a rediscovery of the most famous passages of the Western literature.

    Adam and Eve, Tamara de Lempicka, 1931

    Oil on panel, 116 x 73. Private collection.

    Come! an Unseen Flute

    Come! an unseen flute

    Sighs in the orchards.

    The most peaceful song

    Is the song that shepherds sing.

    The wind beneath the ilex

    Ruffles the waters’ dark mirror.

    The most joyous song

    Is the song that birds sing.

    Let no worry torment you.

    Let us love! Let us always love!

    The most sweet song

    Is the song that lovers sing.

    — Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

    I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -

    I have shudder'd at it.

    I shudder no more.

    I could be martyr'd for my religion

    Love is my religion

    And I could die for that.

    I could die for you.

    — John Keats (1795-1821)

    Adam and Eve, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), c. 1550.

    Oil on canvas, 176 x 191 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

    Adam and Eve, Suzanne Valadon, 1909.

    Oil on canvas, 162 x 131 cm. Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

    Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer, 1504

    Engraving, 25.1 x 20 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

    The Gentle Heart

    Within the gentle heart Love shelters him,

    As birds within the green shade of the grove.

    Before the gentle heart, in Nature’s scheme,

    Love was not, nor the gentle heart ere Love.

    For with the sun, at once,

    So sprang the light immediately; nor was

    Its birth before the sun’s.

    And Love hath his effect in gentleness

    Of very self; even as

    Within the middle fire the heat’s

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