Ilha dos Amores #80

Sarcófago etrusco, 520 a.C.


The woman is positioned on the man's left side, couched close and parallel, both of them at their ease and gazing intently ahead at something which by all the rules of perspective should be visible in the man's outstretched right hand. But there is nothing to be seen there. Was it a bird that has flown? A flower that has been snapped away? A bird that is approaching? Nothing is shown, yet their gaze is full of realization.

Seamus Heaney

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