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Gallery XI

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Portrait to my father
Spanish original: "Retrato a mi padre"

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Portrait to my father | Retrato a mi padre
Gallery XI: "Portraits" | «Retratos»
1998
oil on canvas
61 x 50 cm
private collection

Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645).
Spanish poet, novelist and satirist.

Spanish Spanish original

English English translation

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera
sombra que me llevare el blanco día,
y podrá desatar esta alma mía
hora a su afán ansioso lisonjera;

mas no, de esotra parte, en la ribera,
dejará la memoria, en donde ardía:
nadar sabe mi llama la agua fría,
y perder el respeto a ley severa.

Alma a quien todo un dios prisión ha sido,
venas que humor a tanto fuego han dado,
medulas que han gloriosamente ardido:

su cuerpo dejará, no su cuidado;
serán ceniza, mas tendrá sentido;
polvo serán, mas polvo enamorado

Francisco de Quevedo,
Amor constante más allá de la muerte

Perhaps whatever final shadow that
the shining day may bring could close my eyes,
and this my soul may well be set aflight
by time responding to its longing sighs;

but not, from that other side, on the bank
will memory leave, where it burned:
to swim my flame knows the cold water
and pay no heed to a severe law.

Soul by no less than a god confined,
veins that such a blazing fire have fueled,
marrow to its glorious flames consigned:

the body will abandon, not its woes;
will soon be ash, but ash that is aware;
dust will be, but dust whose love still grows.

Francisco de Quevedo,
Love Constant Beyond Death

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Gallery XI: Portraits

no.

original title

title in English

006

Retrato a mi padre

Portrait to my father

019

Autorretratouno

First Self-Portrait

043

Retrato de Suzanne

Suzanne's Portrait

074 Rosa Mari Rosa Mari
075 Juan Luis Juan Luis
076 Flora Flora
077 Pierre De Lattre Pierre De Lattre
078 Luis Luis

Galleries

no.

original title

title in English

I.

De mares

About Seas (3)

II: Máscaras Masks (3)
III.

Vanidades

Vanities (4)

IV.

Humani nihil a me alienum puto

Nothing human is distant to me (5)

V.

Desasosiego

Disquiet (8)

VI.

Sueños

Dreams (5)

VII.

Soledades

Solitudes (4)

VIII.

Deseos

Wishes (5)

IX.

Advenimiento del Superhombre

Advent of the Superman (6)

X.

Del Hierro al Titanio

From Iron to Titanium (25)

XI.

Retratos

Portraits (8)

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