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    The Origin of the World
    The Origin of the World
    The Origin of the World
    Ebook167 pages49 minutes

    The Origin of the World

    By Jp. A. Calosse and Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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    Lacan, the last owner of Courbet’s The Origin of the World, loved the painting so much that he couldn’t even bring himself to look at it. Instead, he hid it behind a “safer” painting.
    The Chinese called it the “valley of the roses” (watch out for the thorns!), the Persians, the “honey-pot” (watch out for the bees!), and the Greeks, “the mound of Venus” (mind the steep climb!); to each era its fantasies and its theories about the feminine mystique. Then there are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateNov 14, 2023
    ISBN9781783101702
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      The Origin of the World - Jp. A. Calosse

      Song of Songs, Old Testament

      ³ All night long on my bed

      I looked for the one my heart loves;

      I looked for him but did not find him.

      ² I will get up now and go about the city,

      through its streets and squares;

      I will search for the one my heart loves.

      So I looked for him but did not find him.

      ³ The watchmen found me

      as they made their rounds in the city.

      have you seen the one my heart loves?

      ⁴ Scarcely had I passed them

      when I found the one my heart loves.

      I held him and would not let him go

      till I had brought him to my mother’s house,

      to the room of the one who conceived me.

      ⁵ Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you

      by the gazelles and by the does of the field:

      Do not arouse or awaken love

      until it so desires.

      ⁶ Who is this coming up from the wilderness

      like a column of smoke,

      perfumed with myrrh and incense

      made from all the spices of the merchant?

      ⁷ Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,

      escorted by sixty warriors,

      the noblest of Israel,

      ⁸ all of them wearing the sword,

      all experienced in battle,

      each with his sword at his side,

      prepared for the terrors of the night.

      ⁹ King Solomon made for himself the carriage;

      he made it of wood from Lebanon.

      ¹⁰ Its posts he made of silver,

      its base of gold.

      Its seat was upholstered with purple,

      its interior inlaid with love.

      Daughters of Jerusalem, ¹¹ come out,

      and look, you daughters of Zion.

      Look on King Solomon wearing a crown,

      the crown with which his mother crowned him

      on the day of his wedding,

      the day his heart rejoiced.

      Sleeping Venus, Giorgione, c. 1508-1510

      Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 175 cm. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden

      Venus Rising from the Sea (Venus Anadyomene), Titian, c. 1520

      Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 57.6 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

      The Nymph at the Fountain, Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530-1534

      Oil on wood, 75 x 120 cm. Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

      Venus of Urbino, Titian, 1538

      Oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm. Galleria deglia Uffizi, Florence

      He

      ⁴ How beautiful you are, my darling!

      Oh, how beautiful!

      Your eyes behind your veil are doves.

      Your hair is like a flock of goats

      descending from the hills of Gilead.

      ² Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,

      coming up from the washing.

      Each has its twin;

      not one of them is alone.

      ³ Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;

      your mouth is lovely.

      Your temples behind your veil

      are like the halves of a pomegranate.

      ⁴ Your neck is like the tower of David,

      built with courses of stone;

      on it hang a thousand shields,

      all of them shields of warriors.

      ⁵ Your breasts are like two fawns,

      like twin fawns of a gazelle

      that browse among the lilies.

      ⁶ Until the day breaks

      and the shadows flee,

      I will go to the mountain of myrrh

      and to the hill of incense.

      ⁷ You are altogether beautiful, my darling;

      there is no flaw in you.

      ⁸ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,

      come with me from Lebanon.

      Descend from the crest of Amana,

      from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon,

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