Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Venus and the Lute Player Comments
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Far in the background a blue mountain waits
To echo back the song
The note-necked swan, while it reverberates,
Paddles the tune along.
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Fabrizio Frosini
30 September 2015
this is the 3rd poem, today, related to a painting.. - by a Japanese painter, first, then a Flemmish and an Italian one: a good choose :)
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12/16/2025 4:02:56 AM # 1.0.0
a note about the painting: ''Venus and the Lute Player '' was painted (c.1565–70) by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) ''The subject of the paintings has been thought to relate to Neoplatonic ideas about whether beauty is better apprehended through sight or through sound, but it may just as well signify the way music inspires love.''