1. 28 Oct


    Girl with a Mirror, an Allegory of Profane Love (1627). Paulus Moreelse (Dutch, Baroque, 1571–1638). Oil on canvas. The Fitzwilliam Museum. The small book is opened on a page that shows a kneeling woman offering a gift to Venus and Amor. The text can be translated: ”The desire of the flesh (lascivia) does not live for itself but for Venus. To her she offers gold and jewels and all riches.”  Moreelse wanted to make clear in a skillfully playful manner and an inoffensively moralizing tone that the combination of sensuality, vanity and material wealth, exact description of profane love, can be very dangerous.

    Girl with a Mirror, an Allegory of Profane Love (1627). Paulus Moreelse (Dutch, Baroque, 1571–1638). Oil on canvas. The Fitzwilliam Museum.

    The small book is opened on a page that shows a kneeling woman offering a gift to Venus and Amor. The text can be translated: ”The desire of the flesh (lascivia) does not live for itself but for Venus. To her she offers gold and jewels and all riches.” 

    Moreelse wanted to make clear in a skillfully playful manner and an inoffensively moralizing tone that the combination of sensuality, vanity and material wealth, exact description of profane love, can be very dangerous.

     
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    Alegoría del Amor Profano. Y por supuesto un libro. Relatos, novelas, poemas, siempre han hecho de Celestinas.
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