Paris. Louvre Museum. Richelieu wing. Second floor. Room fourteen. “The Sheperds of Arcadia”, the representation of four shepherds in front of a tomb, was created by Nicolas Poussin around 1640. Its s…
I love the idea of a redemption consisting in the construction of beautiful narratives. Here, the idea expressed at its best by Umberto Eco in a novel (The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana) and in a le…
This page from Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana has always (nostalgically) reminded me of my grandfather’s Nativity scene, also using a mysterious “big bottle with no neck” to a…
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