The Origin of the World E-Book

Jp. A. Calosse

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Erotik
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 54

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Lacan, the last owner of Courbet’s The Origin of the World, loved the painting so much that he couldn’t even bring himself to look at it. Instead, he hid it behind a “safer” painting. The Chinese called it the “valley of the roses” (watch out for the thorns!), the Persians, the “honey-pot” (watch out for the bees!), and the Greeks, “the mound of Venus” (mind the steep climb!); to each era its fantasies and its theories about the feminine mystique. Then there are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.

Leseprobe

Jp. A. Calosse and Hans-Jürgen Döpp

The Origin

Authors:

Jp. A. Calosse and Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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The famous psychologist, professor Lacan,was the last owner of Courbet’s The Origin of the World. He loved the painting so much that he couldn’t even bring himself to look at it. Instead, he hid it behind a “safer” painting.

The Chinese called it the “valley of the roses” (watch out for the thorns!), the Persians, the “honey-pot” (watch out for the bees!), and the Greeks, “the mound of Venus” (mind the steep climb!); to each era its fantasies and its theories about the feminine mystique. Then there are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.

Gustave Moreau, Cleopatra, 1887

Watercolour and gouache highlights, 39.5 x 25 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Contents

Song of Songs, Old Testament

Poems

Elegy 5

XIII

A Woman Waits for Me

A Love Song

Sonnet: “I am most lovely, fair beyond desire”

Sonnet LVI. True Woman: I. Herself

I Sing the Body Electric

Hymn to Venus

Ecstasy by Hans-Jürgen Döpp

Index

Song of Songs, Old Testament

3 All night long on my bed

I looked for the one my heart loves;

I looked for him but did not find him.

2 I will get up now and go about the city,

through its streets and squares;

I will search for the one my heart loves.

So I looked for him but did not find him.

3 The watchmen found me

as they made their rounds in the city.

”have you seen the one my heart loves?”

4 Scarcely had I passed them

when I found the one my heart loves.

I held him and would not let him go

till I had brought him to my mother’s house,

to the room of the one who conceived me.

5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you

by the gazelles and by the does of the field:

Do not arouse or awaken love

until it so desires.

6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness

like a column of smoke,

perfumed with myrrh and incense

made from all the spices of the merchant?

7 Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,

escorted by sixty warriors,

the noblest of Israel,

8 all of them wearing the sword,

all experienced in battle,

each with his sword at his side,

prepared for the terrors of the night.

9 King Solomon made for himself the carriage;

he made it of wood from Lebanon.

10 Its posts he made of silver,

its base of gold.

Its seat was upholstered with purple,

its interior inlaid with love.

Daughters of Jerusalem, 11 come out,

and look, you daughters of Zion.

Look on King Solomon wearing a crown,

the crown with which his mother crowned him

on the day of his wedding,

the day his heart rejoiced.

Sleeping Venus, Giorgione, c.1508-1510

Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 175 cm. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden

Venus Rising from the Sea (“Venus Anadyomene”), Titian, c.1520

Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 57.6 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

The Nymph at the Fountain, Lucas Cranach the Elder, c.1530-1534

Oil on wood, 75 x 120 cm. Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Venus of Urbino, Titian, 1538

Oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm. Galleria deglia Uffizi, Florence

He

4 How beautiful you are, my darling!

Oh, how beautiful!

Your eyes behind your veil are doves.

Your hair is like a flock of goats

descending from the hills of Gilead.

2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,

coming up from the washing.

Each has its twin;

not one of them is alone.

3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;

your mouth is lovely.

Your temples behind your veil

are like the halves of a pomegranate.

4 Your neck is like the tower of David,

built with courses of stone;

on it hang a thousand shields,

all of them shields of warriors.

5 Your breasts are like two fawns,

like twin fawns of a gazelle

that browse among the lilies.

6 Until the day breaks

and the shadows flee,

I will go to the mountain of myrrh

and to the hill of incense.

7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling;

there is no flaw in you.

8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,

come with me from Lebanon.

Descend from the crest of Amana,

from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon,

from the lions' dens

and the mountain haunts of leopards.

9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;

you have stolen my heart

with one glance of your eyes,

with one jewel of your necklace.

10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!

How much more pleasing is your love than wine,

and the fragrance of your perfume

more than any spice!

11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;

milk and honey are under your tongue.

The fragrance of your garments

is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride;

you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.

13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates

with choice fruits,

with henna and nard,

14 nard and saffron,

calamus and cinnamon,

with every kind of incense tree,

with myrrh and aloes

and all the finest spices.

15 You are a garden fountain,

a well of flowing water

streaming down from Lebanon.

The Three Graces, Peter Paul Rubens, 1630-1635

Oil on wood, 220.5 x 182 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Danaë, Rembrandt, 1636

Oil on canvas, 185 x 202.5 cm. The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Bathsheba with King David’s Letter or Bathsheba Bathing, Rembrandt, 1654

Oil on canvas, 142 x 142 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Young Woman Sleeping, Anonymous, 18th century

French miniature painted on ivory

Nude Maja, Francisco de Goya, 1797-1800

Oil on canvas, 98 x 191 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

The Woman with White Stockings,