“Violet, blue, green, red to keep me at arm’s length don’t work
You try to push me out, but I just find my way back in
Violet, blue, green, red to keep me out, I win”
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“Maraviglia di mie belleze tenere/Non prender già ch’ i’ nacqui in grembo a Venere” - Angelo Poliziano
The very accurate representation of the hair of the goddess born from the sea and pushed to land by Aura and Zephyr-thick, windblown and highlighted with gold-must be a homage to Leon Battista Alberti, the great art theorist, who, two generations earlier, wrote, ‘I am delighted to see seven movements in hair, which is especially pleasing when part of it turns in spirals as if wishing to knot itself, waves in the air like flames, twines around itself like a serpent, while part rises here, part there’ (Della pittura, II 45).
Peter Pevensie - High King Peter the Magnificent Emperor of the Lone Islands Lord of Cair Paravel Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion Sir Peter Wolf’s-Bane
