Journey of the Magi
We returned to our places,
these kingdoms,
but no longer at ease here,
in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods
I should be glad of another death
T.S Eliot
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Andrea Mantegna
1431 - 1506
'Adorazione dei Magi'
'It was the desire for living, vital expression.... which built Gothic cathedrals, which created Mozart sonatas.
I believe it is going to stay that way for long time to come.'
August Macke
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.'
Illustration by WJ Neatby, 1899
'Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence
- a reconcentration... tearing away the veils that fact acquires through time.'
Francis Bacon
btd 1909 d 1992
José Uría y Urí
1861–1937
'Faust meets the black dog'
©Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain