(via TumbleOn)Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, Kent England ~ verses from John Donne’s The Sun Rising appear on the facing wall
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world’s contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.
(via TumbleOn)El rapto de Proserpina. Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1621 - 1622)
Galleria Borghese. Roma.
Detalle del lado derecho de la escultura que muestra como los dedos de Plutón aprietan el cuerpo de Proserpina.
