Will we enter the new era of Nostalgia? Or, perhaps another period of it, or maybe we have never been without it? Are we amidst such period?
In 2008 Vienna Museum featured hugely successful showcase of Vanitas in art. What would I give for the catalogue of it....
Favourite symbols beaming from the canvases
asking the question of Essential Melancholy:
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| In ictu oculi ("In the blink of an eye") a vanitas by Juan de Valdés Leal |
Ubi sunt?
¿Qué se fizo el rey don Juan?Los infantes de Aragón ¿qué se fizieron?
¿Qué fue de tanto galán,
qué fue de tanta invención como trujeron?
What became of King Don Juan?
The Princes of Aragon,
What became of all of them?
What of so much handsome nobility?
This canción relies on the motives of things of this world that are gone by, hence letting us that we may be next in line....
That's just what this is - Where are the flowers gone, from 1961.
