#7 Hacia Valeria.
BLEDA Y ROSA
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'Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces! Streets,
say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?'
These words, with which Goethe begins his Roman Elegies The Roman Elegies (German: Römische Elegien) is a series of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Along with the Venetian Epigrams, they were written during his Italian Journey and celebrate the sensuality and vigor of Italian and Classical culture. (1789), his
erotic panegyric panegyric
Eulogistic oration or laudatory discourse. The panegyric originally was a speech delivered at an ancient Greek general assembly (panegyris), such as the Olympic and Panathenaic festivals. to a celebrated city, hover above this photograph. At
the end of the last millennium, the two Spanish artists - See List of Spanish artists (Born 1300-1500).
- See List of Spanish artists (Born 1500-1800).
Born 1801-1850
- Vicente Camaron (1803-1864) Painter
- Rosario Weiss (1814 - 1843)Painter
- Bernardo Lopez (1801-1874)
Bleda y Rosa
travelled the Iberian Peninsula Iberian Peninsula, c.230,400 sq mi (596,740 sq km), SW Europe, separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. Comprising Spain and Portugal, it is washed on the N and W by the Atlantic Ocean and on the S and E by the Mediterranean Sea; the Strait of Gibraltar , photographing the vestiges of former
major cities for their Ciudades series. The stones are mute but the
photograph speaks, not just as the memory of a great city, but also as
the premonition of the fate of our cities.
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