The visitors

The museum of Borghese Gallery, in Rome Italy, opened the doors in 8:30 am and until to 10:30 nobody entered because other busies were important; but from 10:30very much wives and husbands were in museum, some student that gazed a painting and spook to painting; somebody has looked this student and approaching to him, asked: “Excuse me but do you are speaking to?”, and student wearing a black hat gazed the painting and answered: “I am speaking to Caravaggio”, and the visitor: “No you are speaking to the David and Goliath of Caravaggio(1571-1610)(Fig.1), but not certainly to him because he is died in 1610”, the student turned to his side and: “She doesn’t see you”, and the visitors soon gazed a figure that becomes material and a man with a cloth of 17^th century and a long mantel bowed herself and seen to eyes of lady, that very astonished gazed this man, and asked: “Who are you?”, and he: “Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio, died to 1610”, and the lady, whose around very much visitors were gathered, said: “Do you better than other explain because this Goliath has your face?”, and Caravaggio: “Because I wanted foresee my destiny, because in Rome pope Paul 5^th has condemned me to capital sentence, and I wanted represented me as I am going to be after the sentence”, and the lady: “But thank this painting the pope has forgiven you”, and Caravaggio: “Yes, hence say that the art isn’t useful is error”, the lady smiled and turned and gazed the Virgin of Palafrenieri(Fig.2), and asked: “This painting were in Vatican why it is here now?”, and Caravaggio: “because the cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of pope Paul 5^th, judged this painting very shameful, so ugly that he has made the sacrifice of welcome to his gallery, true a saint man, and other figure from group gone ahead and in front to lady, this is Raffaello Santio(1483-1520): “Saint very scant, because he has robbed my painting with Deposition(Fig.3), originally this painting was in church of Saint Francis to Prato in Perugia, he tried the purchase but the monks refused and he made robbed it; he is very steal; and other figure come ahead and Caravaggio presented him, lady I want present to you Antonio Canova(1757-1822), sculptor, author of Paolina Borghese in other room(Fig.4), the lady followed the Canova and she gazed the sculpture, and turned to Antonio she commented: “It is beautiful”, and Antonio: “Thank you very much”, and lady together the group: “Who is she?”, and Canova: “She is the minor sister of Napoleon, and wife of Camillo Borghese”, and the one member of group: “Why it is so precise?”, and Antonio: “What?”, and the visitor: “Why? It is so short natural?”, and Antonio: “Because the neoclassicism is perfect always, because the naturalism in Neoclassicism isn’t never, we sculptor of that period and cultural address have took inspiration from ancient sculptures and never from the natural, because the nature we have ennobled in our brain through the imagination, for example while I sculpted some my pupil read the Odyssey of Iliad of Homer, because I wanted imagine the heroes and the figure, although Home and Virgil didn’t describe them”, while he is spoking  an figure gone ahead and Antonio welcome and presented to lady: “He is Tiziano Vecellio(1488-1576), a painter and author of Profane and Sacred love(Fig.5), and the lady: “Where is your painting?” and Titian: “Follow me please”, and in front of paining, Titian: “The nude female is identifiable as the pure love, the true love, that nothing hides, hence the divine love, and the female dressed is the natural love, the human love, and the child, Eros is middle love, this is the middle between the terrain love and heaven love, because it is in both”. While the time was past and the museum was closing, whereby every figure disappeared and the visitors gone away. The follow day, other visitors, and now the museum was very full, and one visitor approached to other and asked: “Excuse me lady but what means this painting”, and the lady: “I can said to you what has said yesterday Titian”, and the visitor accepted and actually he called others and the lady repeated what Titian has said to her, and in the group she seen also the painters and sculptors that the after day has explained the works, she seen also members of hers group that has seen the after day, and she explained to painters, that didn’t read the mean of painting of Titian, to sculptors, to her group and the new group until the close.

Alessandro Lusana              

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