La creazione
Painting, Philosophy, Sacred / Mythological, Fantasy / Visionary, Symbol / Letter, Mixed technique, 100x100x1cm
The creation
A chant arose from the clear and pure voice of St. Francis :
" All praise be yours , my Lord , with all Your creatures , especially Messer Brother Sun , who is day and enlighten us through him.
All praise be yours , my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars in the sky have made them clear and precious and fair .
All praise be yours , my Lord, for brother wind and the clouds, and every time the serene , through which you give your creatures nourishment.
All praise be yours , my Lord , through Sister Water, which is very useful , humble, precious and pure .
All praise be yours , my Lord , through Brother Fire, through which we light up the night , and it is beautiful, joyful , robust and strong .
All praise be yours , my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us , and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs (...) " .
The Canticle of the Sun , the oldest poem of Italian literature , was composed by Santo two years before his death in 1226, at San Damiano , after a night of suffering. It evokes the whole cosmic reality then conceived to bear witness to the infinite Love of God In fact , praise the Lord begins with the admiration of the ether ( formed by the sun, moon and stars ) , the fifth constituent matter introduced by Aristotle. Francis then passes to the praise of the other four elements ( air, water, fire and earth ) : the "four roots of all things " according to Empedocles, and later Aristotle, who with his ideas influenced to about 2000 years, the scientific thought. At the summit of the universe there is the Christ Pantocrator (from the greek "Lord of all things " ) , which is portrayed in an attitude majestic and severe , the act of blessing with three fingers of his right hand , according to the ' Orthodox use . The Christ, as the incarnate Logos, is the key to understanding reality, and the answer to the mystery of existence. The representation of the five elements is then enclosed in an egg, wrapped in the coils of a uroburo , red and blue, while the background evokes in all its explosive power the occurrence of the "Big Bang" . The archetype of the oval actually permeates the history of mankind since ancient times , cultures uniting seemingly far apart . Several cosmogonic myths imagine the universe in the form of egg or as originated from an egg . It , symbol of perfection, is the primordial cell that contains the seeds of the multiplicity of beings and the image of the original totality prior to any differentiation. The presence in the painting dell'uroburo ( from Coptic Ouro , "king" , and Hebrew ob, "snake" ) , the snake biting its tail, evokes eternity and totality of the universe . It is the emblem of the eternal return and the ongoing regeneration of life , the King snake is the image that best describes the cyclic concept of time: the "Great Year " of the ancients. The body dell'Uroburo is red and blue to signify respectively the human dimension (the earth) and the divine dimension (heaven ), and therefore alludes to the union of opposites within the totality original .
A chant arose from the clear and pure voice of St. Francis :
" All praise be yours , my Lord , with all Your creatures , especially Messer Brother Sun , who is day and enlighten us through him.
All praise be yours , my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars in the sky have made them clear and precious and fair .
All praise be yours , my Lord, for brother wind and the clouds, and every time the serene , through which you give your creatures nourishment.
All praise be yours , my Lord , through Sister Water, which is very useful , humble, precious and pure .
All praise be yours , my Lord , through Brother Fire, through which we light up the night , and it is beautiful, joyful , robust and strong .
All praise be yours , my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us , and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs (...) " .
The Canticle of the Sun , the oldest poem of Italian literature , was composed by Santo two years before his death in 1226, at San Damiano , after a night of suffering. It evokes the whole cosmic reality then conceived to bear witness to the infinite Love of God In fact , praise the Lord begins with the admiration of the ether ( formed by the sun, moon and stars ) , the fifth constituent matter introduced by Aristotle. Francis then passes to the praise of the other four elements ( air, water, fire and earth ) : the "four roots of all things " according to Empedocles, and later Aristotle, who with his ideas influenced to about 2000 years, the scientific thought. At the summit of the universe there is the Christ Pantocrator (from the greek "Lord of all things " ) , which is portrayed in an attitude majestic and severe , the act of blessing with three fingers of his right hand , according to the ' Orthodox use . The Christ, as the incarnate Logos, is the key to understanding reality, and the answer to the mystery of existence. The representation of the five elements is then enclosed in an egg, wrapped in the coils of a uroburo , red and blue, while the background evokes in all its explosive power the occurrence of the "Big Bang" . The archetype of the oval actually permeates the history of mankind since ancient times , cultures uniting seemingly far apart . Several cosmogonic myths imagine the universe in the form of egg or as originated from an egg . It , symbol of perfection, is the primordial cell that contains the seeds of the multiplicity of beings and the image of the original totality prior to any differentiation. The presence in the painting dell'uroburo ( from Coptic Ouro , "king" , and Hebrew ob, "snake" ) , the snake biting its tail, evokes eternity and totality of the universe . It is the emblem of the eternal return and the ongoing regeneration of life , the King snake is the image that best describes the cyclic concept of time: the "Great Year " of the ancients. The body dell'Uroburo is red and blue to signify respectively the human dimension (the earth) and the divine dimension (heaven ), and therefore alludes to the union of opposites within the totality original .
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