Bernini
"A Dafne ya los brazos le crecían,
y en luengos ramos vueltos se mostraban;
en verdes hojas vi que se tornaban
los cabellos que el oro escurecían.
De áspera corteza se cubrían
los tirnos miembros, que aún bullendo estaban:
los blancos pies en tierra se hincaban,
y en retorcida raíces se volvían.
Aquel que fue la causa de tal daño,
a fuerza de llorar, crecer hacía
el árbol que con lágrimas regaba.
¡O miserable estado, oh mal tamaño!
¡Qe con lloralla cresca cada día
la causa y la razón por que lloraba!"
Garcilaso de la Vega
Tiepolo
Laura lives in La Rioja. She likes dancing as well as Laurel Street (which is Bacco's street in the wine region).
Laurel Street. La Rioja.
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| Apollo vs. Dionysius |
Next summer I'm going to paint a fresco for her. She would like a mandala, I thought I would do something related to music and the first image that came to my mind was the Carafa Chapel.
Filippino Lippi
For the fresco we have a circular space, 60 cm in diameter.
Daphne's arms form a laurel wreath and Apollo has dreadlocks resembling the sun's rays.
Apollo, the god of beauty and sun, doesn't succeed in catching up with Laura, because she's "lunar", she has a cheerfulness and a mistery that escape the intellect. Apollo desires her, but she wins him out (winner's laurel) and she doesn't let him grab her, ans so, they are chasing forever because he's a god and she's a nymph.
The musicians form the shape of the laurel wreath too.
Laura dancing:
Shiva
The guitarist and the percussionist are"chasing after" a good song. Sketches:
I have found this Parmigianino drawing, "Venus, Mars and Vulcan" of the National Gallery of Parma, according to D. Arasse thinker's interpretation, the scene is described in an allegorical way: Vulcan's look and gesture identify him with the artist, intellectually concentrated on the very moment of the invention; the breath of wind moving the blacksmith's hair and beard, as well as the veil wrapping the lovers, is that of the artistic ispiration, explicitly compared to sexual pulsion.
Apollo is bending like his characteristic bow (and like bullfighters too).
And Daphne - Laura's arms look like a bull's horns and the moon too.
Apollo y Daphne. Capodimonte museum.
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| Ruven Afanador |
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| Diane (School of Fontainebleau, detail) |
The circle has changed into an egg.
"MANDALA" is a word coming from sanskrit, that means diagram or symbolic representation of the macrocosm and the microcosm used in buddhism as well as in hinduism.
Most cultures have mandalic and mandaloid configurations.
The "mandorla" of the medieval christian art, some labyrinths on the floor and the rose windows of the gothic churches, the diagrams of the indian people, etc.
This universality of the mandalas made Jung consider them as likely expressions of the "collective unconsious".
The lyre, the "diana" (that in spanish means "target "too), the paintbrushes...
Apollo y Daphne
Daphne and the lyre. The bow and the laurel.
The sun and the moon.
The bull and the bullfighter. The "yin" and the "yang". The egg and the laurel wreath.
The fresco:
the spiral and the wreath.
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