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bethsabee a zijn bad artemisia gentileschiIn de fascinerende wereld van de kunstgeschiedenis overstijgen sommige werken de tijd en blijven ze de geest van kunstliefhebbers en onderzoekers boeien. "Kunstdruk Bethsabe in haar bad" van Artemisia Gentileschi is een van die iconische stukken die, door haar dramatische intensiteit en emotionele diepgang, uitnodigen tot reflectie over de vrouwelijke toestand en de kracht van representatie. Dit werk, vervaardigd in de 17e eeuw, past binnen een
In de fascinerende wereld van de kunstgeschiedenis overstijgen sommige werken de tijd en blijven ze de geest van kunstliefhebbers en onderzoekers boeien. "Kunstdruk Bethsabée in haar bad" van Artemisia Gentileschi is een van die iconische stukken die, door haar dramatische intensiteit en emotionele diepgang, uitnodigen tot reflectie over de vrouwelijke toestand en de kracht van representatie. Dit werk, vervaardigd in de 17e eeuw, past binnen een artistieke context waarin vrouwelijke kunstenaars begonnen op te komen, en de normen en vooroordelen van hun tijd uitdaagden. De afgebeelde scène, waarin Bethsabée zich voorbereidt om koning David te ontvangen, is zowel intiem als geladen met spanning, en biedt een inkijk in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en machtsdynamieken. Stijl en uniekheid van het werk De kracht van "Kunstdruk Bethsabée in haar bad" ligt in de unieke stijl van Artemisia Gentileschi, die een treffend realisme combineert met emotionele gevoeligheid. De kunstenaar gebruikt dramatische belichting, typisch voor clair-obscur, om de vormen en uitdrukkingen van de personages te accentueren. De minutieuze details, van de textuur van de huid tot de reflecties in het water, getuigen van een opmerkelijke technische beheersing. Gentileschi kiest ervoor om Bethsabée niet als een passief slachtoffer te portretteren, maar als een sterke vrouw, zich bewust van haar macht en uitstraling. Deze gedurfde interpretatie geeft het werk een moderne dimensie, die echoot met de strijd van vrouwen door de eeuwen heen. De compositie, met haar harmonieuze balans en dynamiek, voert de kijker mee in een visuele dans waarin elk element geladen lijkt met betekenis. De kunstenaar en haar invloed Artemisia Gentileschi, een onmisbare figuur in de barokke schilderkunst, wist zich te vestigen in een artistieke wereld die gedomineerd werd door mannen. Geboren in 1593, werd ze beïnvloed door tragische gebeurtenissen die haar werk diepgaand hebben gevormd. Haar parcours, vol uitdagingen en triomfen, maakte haar tot een pionier voor vrouwelijke kunstenaars. Haar schilderijen, vaak geïnspireerd door bijbelse of mythologische verhalen, verkennen thema's van wraak, vrouwelijkheid en veerkracht. Gentileschi heeft niet alleen een onuitwisbare stempel achtergelaten op haar tijd,Shipping Notes
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★★★★★ 5
Quick and valuable read
Format: Paperback
I love this book. It’s not a sit down and read it through (unless you want to!). It’s a sit, turn to a random page, and read. Sit with it for a bit and think. It’s great poetry and always is insightful. I often purchase this as gifts for friends and is great to have on a “coffee table” or lamp stand.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Blessed Ruin: Lessons on the Stages of Love
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Having already been enchanted by Daniel Ladinsky's previous rendererings of Hafiz in _I Heard God Laughing_ and _The Subject Tonight is Love_, Ladinsky's present effort is worthy of no less acclaim. In fact, his choices this time from the _Divan_(250 poems) bring home with exquisite precision that Hafiz, the Perfect Master is in fact, a Master of Love. The reader gets the clear message in Ladinsky's portrait that Hafiz has intermalized to perfection his teacher's (Mohammad Attar)lessons on the manifold levels of love and its demands: "I saw it was Hafiz who wrote all your notes of sadness, But also etched and gave you Every ecstatic wince of joy your face, body and heart has ever known." (p.38). This is no "New Age" nonsense, which at its worst hails the light and avoids the shadow, Hafiz (though seducing the beginner lover by his promises of sweetness and tenderness, that God could actually "become an infant in your arms"[p,56]) cautions that he "hold's the Lion's Paw whenever I dance."(p.57). Western culture has not received such lessons on divine love since Jesus and Plato, and unfortunately, the fresh images of their teachings on love have all been but lost to humanity, save a small remnant of sketches. Ladinsky's Hafiz both assures and challenges the seeker because any fully-alive being with such capacity for loving as Hafiz dwarfs our puny notions of western romantic love without shaming or condemning it. Only encouraging like a true teacher with compassion would: "You ask for a few words of comfort and guidance. I quickly kneel at your side offering you this whole book . . . Here's a rope, tie it around me, Hafiz will be your companion for life."(p83). Hafiz's language of love utilized the metaphor of his time and culture as Jesus incorporated the images of parable. Ladinsky courageously steps out of line (as surely did Hafiz) and takes the risk to be mundane without being irreverent when describing the labyrinth that is the heart: "There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain. Others are far too deep for that." (p76) Ladinsky's Hafiz teaches us of a divine being who walks among and talks with and celebrates his creation; yet challenges it to stretch beyond its boundaries of self-interest: " I want both of us to start talking about this great love. As if you , I, and the sun were all married and living in a tiny room, helping each other to cook, do the wash, weave and sew, care for our beautiful animals."(p.180). Ladinsky's fine portrait of this 14th century Perfect Master gives the West the certain bugal cry that God is not dead, but it is we who are dead to God. The success of this book will measure how many of us are indeed alive here, and how many are really interested in the more mature lessons of loving.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2001
★★★★★ 5
One need not be Christian or Muslim or whatever to appreciate his poetry with its deep feelings of connectedness and love of lif
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The book has a lovely, reasonably long, introduction to Hafiz, his time, and fellow poets which helps to create an open and curious mind for the poems that follow. Although I was familiar with several Hafiz poems before, most of this book was new to me. It is a fairly thick book, with the poems spread lightly on the pages. Plenty of white space surrounds and set off the poems so that although there are many, many poems in the book, they are not crowded.
Hafiz celebrates god in a way that is rich and exuberant. One need not be Christian or Muslim or whatever to appreciate his poetry with its deep feelings of connectedness and love of life. In fact, as a Buddhist, I find it is exactly that sensitivity to life, to joy, to the world around, and to other beings around us that offers the greatest illumination. This poetry is wonderful to read just before sleep, or any time, and is a fine addition to any library.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2015
★★★★★ 4
Absolutely beautiful poetic translation occasionally marred by silly attempts at contemporary relevance
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Poetry is something I seldom read, but the range of philosophical and religious reflection in Hafiz' writing is amazing, delightful, and life-affirming. Not every poem is equally rewarding, but how could they be? The translations make these ancient short poems speak to the present day, but sometimes too much so--using terms that have only come into our language in the 20th or 21st centuries at times borders on "cutsie", which distracts from the true meaning. When Ladinsky sticks to standard and time-tested language and grammar, his translations have much deeper impact, for me anyway. I have not read other translations of Hafiz, but I imagine previous ones are full of "thee's" and "thou's", and less erudite perspectives. I highly recommend this book--for me is has more understanding and depth concerning daily living than Rumi, for instance. Just beware that there are some shockingly off-the-mark, if sincere, attempts to make this ancient poetry relevant to us now. Ladinsky apparently spent years working on this book, so my hat is off to his scholarship.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2017
★★★★★ 5
I love The Gift of Hafiz by Daniel Landinsky I am ...
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I love The Gift of Hafiz by Daniel Landinsky
I am Persian and I love the poetry of Hafiz but the book Gift is the first book I read in English language translated by Daniel Ladinsky. As a Persian who is born and raised knowing the poetry of Hafiz by heart and in their original tongue, I really enjoyed reading the book and appreciated the interpretations and translation.
Daniel Ladinsky is an American poet known as interpreter of mystical poetry born and raised in Saint Louise. He has said “the poet who I have worked most with is the 14th century Persian poet Hafiz. And Goethe has said, Hafiz has no peer. And I think Goethe knew what he was talking about”.
Daniel Ladinsky has written many other books about Hafiz which are unique and many have come to know about this great Persian Master more glorious in the English language. In a rare interview on October 2013 with the Sun Magazine, Daniel Ladinsky shares about his spiritual longing, his encounter with a living saint in India who inspired him to work on Hafiz. In his preface of “The Gift” he invites us to join him in his fantastic applause of life and says “I vote to inscribe these words of Hafiz on every flag, church bell, temple, mosque, and politician’s brain:
Dear ones, let’s anoint this earth with dance!
I recommend the book "Gift" to everyone who enjoys poetry.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2016