Poetic Speech and the Silence of Art
1994; Duke University Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1771467
ISSN1945-8517
Autores Tópico(s)Italian Literature and Culture
Resumo44 T E SEE NO BIRDS in the paintings of Paolo Uccello: this VV is how Italo Calvino's short text, The Birds of Paolo Uccello, begins (3). What has become of the birds that according to Vasari once studded his canvases? asks Calvino. Who has scared them away? And the answer: Most certainly it is the soldiers, who render the highways of the air impassable with their spears, and with the clash of weaponry silence trillings and chirrupings. More than one writer had depicted the aged Uccello surrounded by his bird paintings. In his most famous surviving works, however, what catches the attention is the absence of birds, an absence that lies heavy on the air, alarming, menacing and ominous.
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