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They say the angels are sexless yet they make love better than anyone else.
Leonardo da Vinci seemed to be haunted by an angel in whom he kept looking for the lost eternal beauty.
And yet, he knew nothing stays still forever, he who looks for the very pigment in each movement. Just like many grand artists, he has not seen his work through to completion; however, any creation is an everlasting symphony since it contains in itself the groundwork of eternity, this infinitely big fluidity that characterizes the becoming of everything that is to come. An extraordinary visionary gifted with an extreme intelligence, he knew of it since he had impregnated the soul of his work with a concept called «non finito» («unachieved» in Italien). He died in 1519 and left this incomplete canvas in the hands of his disciples and peers who started to copy it and never stopped to do so, while experts from varied backgrounds came from all over the world to analyze it. Thus, Freud was fascinated by the Master’s fascination for the genesis of the Mother Eternal and the Divine Child. Nevertheless, his masterpieces keep this part of wonder intact, like a secret of the same nature as the confidential or the sacred. They forever shine and delicately show us the way to eternity with the finger of the angel in “The Virgin of the Rocks”, or maybe St John The Baptist’s, or even St. Anne’s in the first version of the Trinity.
This splendid and timeless painting has inspired us for centuries since then, especially the soft attitude and the flawless innocence of the Christ embracing the lamb with his shining smile, this very lamb that he resembles so much himself, seemingly ready for self-sacrifice so as for us to be left under the loving eye of his Mother who leaves him free from destiny.
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