Les cahiers d'Alain Truong

This is the first version of the Christian martyr, painted by Guido Reni around 1615-16. ".. a lovely brown boy, with crips, clustering hair and red lips, bound by his evil enemies to a tree and, through pierced by arrowxs, raising his eyes with divine impassioned gaze toward the Eternal Beauty of the opening Heavens," said Oscar Wilde when he saw it at the Palazzo Rosso, in Genoa, where it still belongs. (photo Musei di Strado Nuova, Palazzo Rosso, Genoa)