The badness of Moravia

I have took this title from three words of a Italian director Vanzina that has called Luigi Pirandello as bad, because Pirandello an Italian writer, was truly bad because he has represented hypocrisy of human gender on theater, this is he has told everyone who is human gender and what is human gender, he has told weakness and false behavior of human, in fact he has said very much times: “You are going to meet very much masks and some face”, this is you are going to meet very much hypocrites and very less sincere persons. Moravia, Italian writer has made same storytelling, in fact he has told about human gender and a middle class very false and hypocrite, he has told about real model of human, and Italian, middle class as The time of indifference, first romance, and endowed of a realism very true, where the hypocrisy and is may unique true thing of whole romance. This is a storyteller that is real and continues for much romances of Moravia, as Contempt, Boredom, Country house for Friday, and sexuality of man that is very comic representation of male gender, and his dependence to sex, because this romance is story of a screenwriter that depends for his sex that is speaker, and given orders. This history is very comic but was, at least, in Italy very true, because some past generation every beauty women was aim of sexual attention of men, and this real phenomenon, alone male, was hide under cover of hypocrisy, but it was very present. Every romance of Moravia is a real description of human, for hypocrisy, falseness and lies, everything for interest, gain or morality alone; then Moravia is bad because he had told human gender, some behavior very daily of human gender.

Alessandro Lusana  

 

 

Others models

Benjamin West and Italian painting

I think that I have found others models because very much near some figures to Roman sculpture, that West has studied very well and he has reinterpreted to his painting as Death on the Pale Horse(Fig.1) for composition whose he has resumed some Roman models during his residence in papal city; in fact he has resumed the horse on down of Fountain of the four rivers of Bernini and his collaboratores(Fig.2), for reclining figure on first plane with reise arm is figure of same fountain that has same gesture(Fig.3); for figure form behind West has reinterpreted a figure of Federico Zuccari(Fig.4), with other posture but same drammatic spirit; then West has found the horse on right of painting The expulsion of Heliodorus from temple(Fig.5). For this painting West has took his Roman memories and very masterfully he has reused and has translated in British some Roman conceptions. But I must add that he has adopted from Rome, same dramaticity that we can see to Baroque painting, and of painting from manner; then he takes all necessary to this painting and very masterfully he has mixted different styles.

Alessandro Lusana

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Benjamin West: an American in Rome

This title is strange for one essay because we expected to find very much model for a

painter, but we have to think that a painter finds and translated every model that is

 in his mind and he use again when subject and client allowed it. Then for

Benjamin West(1738-1820), and American painter that has visited Rome and Paris,

 after he worked to London, but the first model is for The death of Socrates(fig.1),

certainly lines and style is very young, but we have to consider that it is very youth

painting then we can excuse inaccurate style may to 1756, important in conformity of

my opinion, it is because west documents his visits to Athens school(Fig.2); we can

list some suggest form Raphael to Benjamin: architecture has arches, same

architecture, with differences for space and subject, Heraclitus is translated to figure

to right that crying, group to left next Socrates is group in same position in painting

of West, the figure to left whose we can see back is suggested from figure of young

going up staircase on right of Athens school, Phythagoras on lest of School has

suggested Socrates. The light very intense (Figg.3-7) is took from Mengs, and he

used also the light of 18^th century, but in Rome he certainly seen Mengs and he has

copied this method this hypothesis is supported by a monography about life and

works of West, this book is published at 1989(Benjamin West American painter at

English court, p.20) and he has copied Tizian, Guido Reni and Carracci, but he not 

forgotten Mengs because he has capied also him, then he has took style,  and author said 

that Mengs suggested to West worth monuments in Rome, and after Mengs advised 

make some drawings of ancient sculptures, then he certainly influenced West, and 

portrait of Mengs certainly West has studied. The portraits no escape the influence of 

Mengs, West took same light and the analytical precision of Dutch colleague, he 

followed same method very meticulous and Flemish, in critical jargon, and growth is 

evident, from the death of Socrates he has improved, now style is very better; but I think 

that West has kept in mind also some sculpture, in fact for his Apollo and Daphne(Fig.7) 

he has very studied same subject of  Bernini(Figg.8-9). Then West has took from Rome 

some ideas necessary to his painter, and he has translated it to USA and to Great British. 

I am ending this essay with other citation: "The tour in Italy made a decisive difference 

in West’s career...".

Alessandro Lusana    

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Thruth and propaganda

The read of Historia ecclesiae Anglicorum of Ordericus Vitalis(1075-1142) shows,

for his silence, a thruth, it is could show very odd, because a thruth is so solely said;

buti s is possible thata thruth isn’t said and it become thruth; what is this thruth?

A question that has name Constitutum Constantini, this is Order of Constantine

that at 1440 was denied by Lorenzo Valla, an Italian intellectual and philologist, that has

shownevery contraddiction and falsehood of this document, whit which the city of Rome

was donated to pope Sylvester by Constantine; today we know perfectly that

this documenti s false, and that was written at 9th century.

Ordericus Vitalis helped us because during read of life of Sylvester pope

never is mentioned this document, he has written history of Church

from Christ and he has written lifes of popes too, but this document

isn’t in life of pope Sylvester; we can think that Ordericus doesen’t known it,

but we can think that the he has took the lifes from Liber pontificalis,

a book with lifes of popes, and this document is denied at 1440, as I have said above;

then he doesn’t writes about Constitutum because is document was not so widespread,

because evidently very much interests were present and the Church wanted not provoke 

problems both itself that his policy.

Alessandro Lusana

        

 

 

Moravia: daily life

We must read The indifferent of Albert Moravia, an Italian writer, and we could know 

what is middle class life, where is seted this romance, and we can understand what is life

in that class, buti t is true? Certainly we can know life and difects and falsities of this social class; buti t is true, I repeat, no certainly, because falsity and hipocrisy is common

to every class, above all if we can reach something, every ideal and principle is forgotten every day,

but a step of this romance tells: “The man that he he must hate no was enough hateful, the woman that he must love, Lisa,

was false she coverted trough intollerable sentimentalisms wants very simple and then

it was impossible love her: “…He thought it isn’t my life…”, we could express same opinion, but

in this contest, very formal, very elegant, very middle class, have we courage?

No, because cut a very bad figure is condition very impeding, we would be

related to contest and would be hypocritical and false as this contest want,

then this is no romance but our daily life, other Italian writer said:

“During your life you are going to know very much masks but very little faces, because mask are

formal and hypocritical behaviour, that we love, because if somebody had this attitude

 we are consider him as peasant, and it is sign that we are addicted to this morality;

then The indifferenti s a portrait of human gender andno alone of middle class

human gender lives every dayhis life.

Alessandro Lusana 

  

 

Tradere humanum est

I think that we must consider that others sources for Biblical end Evangelical sourcesnecessary to undestand origin of some episodes as Great Foolt, that just isaccepted by Biblical archeology to a legend from 700 b.Ch. that George Smith has decoded and after he has decode also Epopee of Gilgames, that tolds around an heros from Uruk, a city on Mesopotamia. Also here are some episode that is very interesting  for origin of some told. First I think that we can consider that Saturday of jew it is possible that when eros, Gilgames rests after fatigue I think that it become rest in Biblical narration. This book told about city of Uruk and construction of that walls and other could be origin of Genesis and creation of word. Goliath could be from Gilgames because a descriprtion shows some particular, he is very high, and he is very brave and he is very strong, the hight is impressive then, because he was 6 cubits almost three meters,and he wolked through mounts, and could be origin to opening of red sea, and he dug well in stone cliff, it could be origin to water from stone. The same creation of man could be from this Epopee, because during tell a god has drawn a figure of man and other god has shaped with clay a man. Evangelical tell is equal, because shepherds go to fold of Gilgames and the gifts of three kings that has brought gold, incense and myrrh in Evangelical episode in Epopee become bread and liquor, and also some king is kneeling in front of Gilgamesh. I think that is could be origin of these episodes, becasue these legends were very spread and geography aids this hypothesis becasuse  this Epopee is from19th century before Christ, and it is, may, the oldest written document of human kind, and Uruk was a city from  230 kilometres from Bagdad, then merkants and others travellers could tall thse histories.

Alessandro Lusana

               

 
 

 

 

Epistolary spirit

During read of Letters about pinter, architecture and sculture of Giovanni Gaetano Bottari(1689-1775), antiquarian and librarian in Vatican toghered these letters about these three arts, letters of artists very much and less known from pubblic and critic; until now nothing exciting, but I want stress spirit of these letters and change of spirit that we can ascertain during read, some examples clears this concept: a lettere of Michael Angel to Pietro Aretino is very meanfull because rapports between the two were very bad, but we can read very good education of Michael Angel that written: “Magnificient mister Pietro Aretino my lord and brother. I have received your letter I have been happiness and wrong together. I was very much cheered up to come to you, that are unique on the word, and I have been very wrong, because I have ended almost the history and it can’t works your fantasy, that it is made that if day of judice has been, and you have seen directly your words don’t describe more well…” and “… if I have something that is appreciated I give it to you…”. We must oass some centuries and we arrive to a letter at 1769 of a religious man Luigi Crespi(1708-1779), that is very directed and he leave out formal diplomacy of Michael Angel and he become very sincere, we can’t know what is argument but we can think that is an offense: “The insinuation  that is in this letter, isn’t plausible but it is condemnable, as you know, and I want add other so that if this letter is going printed I wan’t that somebody that I didn’t fulfill a duty; but Crespi spoken about some painters of Federico Barocci(1535-1612), and he defends this painter from some vulgar insinuation, and he tells that this pianter has painted always holy subject. Regard a book about paintings in Bologna, Painting of Bologna at year 1766, he corrected some informations about painting of his father, and we must consider the sincerity without some polite word: “…for tell pure truth and this book regard my father which has attribuited some painting that he didn’t make, ot some other that he made and is attribuited to other…”; we can consider that the spirit of letters is changed and some formal polite is leave out and the truth is daily by now, it is spirit of de-hierarchization of source and consideration of matters very important as the truth, then that spirit is changed also to letters.

Alessandro Lusana