Michel Laraさんのイラストまとめ

This depiction of 'The Burial of Christ' (1595) by Annibale Carracci is deeply moving as the somber figures are lit by a torch enveloping the burial chamber in an otherworldly luminosity.

Nessun maggior dolore / Che ricordarsi del tempo felice / Nella miseria

"There is no greater sorrow ⁠than to recall happiness in in the midst of misery"

-Francesca to Dante, 'Inferno', Canto V

Desines timere, si sperare desieris.

"You will cease to fear if you cease to hope"

-Seneca, Epistulae Morales (Moral Letters)

The deserted Italian piazzas de Chirico painted seem now ominously prescient where a lone statue acts like a soothsayer silently reading augurs for the days to come.

"The past is certain, the future obscure."

-Thales of Miletus

Pietas erga parentes or "Pietas toward one's parents" was one of the most important aspects of demonstrating virtue in Roman society. Though Pietas was a virtue that resided within each person, it was also a way to show divinity.

The Paradox of Greek Gods

The very immortality of a god impedes the taste of a noble death. As they lack the urgency born out of the finitude of being, thus gods yearn what mortal heroes possess: selfless sacrifice in the face of an inevitable end.

In regione caecorum rex est luscus

"In the country of the blind
the one-eyed man is king"

-Erasmus, Adagia

Journey's end-
smell of autumn rain
in straw hat.

Original costume design sketches for 'Cleopatra' 1963 film by Italian costume designer Vittorio Nino Novarese-pastel and tempera on illustration boards.