Landscape painting Roman ruins of Ostia Antica is the recent painting series of mine. I’ve worked on it since the Covid- 19 pandemics has started and subsequently we got stuck in quarantine. What has started as reveries and remembering some travels at first, has become a much loved painting subject of me. I’ve loved history since I can remember, Roman history is a subject I could read about hours and hours. No doubt this has been part of the reason of my artistic diving in the scenography of ruins, silent witnesses of forgotten times. But then so many connotations have emerged while I’ve been studying the subject to work further on. One of those is certainly the fact that inhabitants of Ostia, like Romans, experienced many waves of malaria outbreaks. The 9th century A.D. outbreak of malaria in Ostia even left the city abandoned. Absolutely grateful for the vaccine and the fact we won’t need to leave our homes I still do think about the cyclical nature of the history, the fact that as humans we remain vulnerable even today. Which makes me wonder: What is going to stay…
Some Latin phrases:
Espice, adspice, prospice. / Look behind, look here, look ahead.
Vide et credere. / See and believe.
Verba volant, scripta manent. / Spoken words fly away, written words remain.
Quindquid latine dictum est, altum videtur. / Anything said in Latin sounds profound.
Aude sapere. / Dare to know.
Natura, artis magistra. / Nature, the mistress of art.
Qui scribit, bis legit. / Who writes, reads twice.
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