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Katia N
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Yourcenar on behalf of Tommai dei Cavalieri, Michelangelo’s friend and possibly lover:
‘When men contemplate my picture, they will not ask who I was or what I did: they will praise me for having existed.”
I often look at a portrait in a gallery thinking exactly this though I’ve never articulated it to myself so well.
— Jan 30, 2026 02:07PM
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‘When men contemplate my picture, they will not ask who I was or what I did: they will praise me for having existed.”
I often look at a portrait in a gallery thinking exactly this though I’ve never articulated it to myself so well.
Katia N
is on page 51 of 144
From the brilliant essay ‘The dark brain of Piranesi’. The passage is in the first comment due to lack of space here.
— Jan 30, 2026 11:57AM
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