Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
'Les Amours De Cassandre' by Ronsard: Nude (Nu), 1968
Medium: Vignette Etching on Japanese Paper
Edition: Edition of 30 E.A.
Artwork Size: 15 x 11 in
Framed Size: 22.25 x 18.25 x 1 in
This work is Framed
Pierre de Ronsard, Renaissance poet to royalty, is the author of Les Amours de Cassandre. After years at court he turned his attention to scholarly studies, focusing on his great love of the Greek and Roman classics, and is often depicted in a toga and laurel wreath.
In his rendition of Les Amours de Cassandre, Dali illustrates the favorite themes of the famous poet and humanist from the French Renaissance. In L'Art Poetique, de Ronsard compared poetry with painting: "the ear is the judge of the structure of verse, while the eye is the judge of brushstrokes." Intuitively, he had opened the way to a Dalinian interpretation.
