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Bellezza è destino

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Anna, trainee attorney-at-law.
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There is a semblance of a truer-than-touchable world above Venice. A traveler in Venice will readily agree, but the meaning of this statement will change with his experience. He will quickly lose what can facetiously be called the sense of ontic orientation. Everything unfolding around him certainly exists, but how, under what laws? Perhaps he is a dream from which he will awaken when he crosses that invisible line? And how is it different from Guardi's vedutas, from Carpaccio's cityscape, from the yellows and blues of Tintoretto and Titian?(...).

Venice is like an astouding shell fished from the sea. This shell, put to the ear, makes the deep sound of the ocean audible, even if we are told that it is completely impossible.

– Ewa Bieńkowska, Co mówią kamienie Wenecji (translation mine)

#Ewa Bieńkowska#Venezia#Venice#Portraits of cities
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"Beauty for me is a sense of integrity, is a sense of knowing the self, it's a sense of standing by who you are. It is a reflection of a deeper part of yourself. {...} There is a deep vulnerability in beauty; if you allow it to surface, it can be a beautiful thing."

—  Annabelle Wallis

#Annabelle Wallis
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“To speak of style is one way of speaking about the totality of a work of art. Like all discourse about totalities, talk of style must rely on metaphors. And metaphors mislead.”

— Susan Sontag, “On Style”

#Susan Sontag
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“The voracious consumption of images makes it impossible to close your eyes. The punctum presupposes an ascesis of seeing. Something musical is inherent in it. This music only sounds when you close your eyes, when you make "an effort at silence." Silence frees the image from the "usual blabla" of communication. Closing your eyes means "making the image speak in silence." This is how Barthes quotes Kafka: “We photograph things to drive them away from the spirit. My stories are a way of closing my eyes.. »”

― Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty

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Sacra di San Michele  X-XI century, Piedmont (northwestern Italy)

It is situated on the south side of the Val di Susa. Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” was inspired by this monumental abbey.

#Photo#Italy
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