“Thank heaven, it is late October,”— D. H. Lawrence, from Classic Works of D.H. Lawrence; “Democracy,”
reblogged from: plu-viophilia
“But where. in the visual rather than literary sense, did the vision come from? That is the mystery of genius. From antique sarcophagi, from a few gems and reliefs, and perhaps some fragments of Aretine ware; from those drawings of classical remains by contemporary artists which were circulated in the Florentine workshops, like the architects’ pattern-books of the 18th century; from such scanty and mediocre material, Botticelli has created one of the most personal evocations of physical beauty in the whole of art, the Three Graces of the Primavera.” — Kenneth Clark, The Nude.
