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The ‘Christ of the tribute’ by Tiziano Vecellio.

The painting in the background is ‘Christ of the tribute, or of the coin’ (1568) by Tiziano Vecellio (now at Dresden, ‘Gemaeldegalerie’)/ Original painting by Stefano Frassetto[1].  

“My dear love,                                                                                                                Sigmund Freud, ‘Letters to his fiancée’ (1883).

(…) Another painting enchanted me, ‘Christ of the tribute’ by Tiziano, that I already knew but without particularly noticing it. The head of Christ, my dear, is the only likely one that we can believe had such a man. Even I felt like I had to believe that he had been so important indeed, because the representation is so successful. And in all of that, nothing divine, a noble human face very far from beauty, and severity, innerity, depth, a superior gentleness, a deep passion; if you cannot find all this in that painting, then physiognomy doesn’t exist. I would have gladly taken it away, but there were too many people : young English women copying, or sitting and speaking softly, or walking and watching. Therefore I walked away moved…”

Sigmund Freud, ‘Letters to his fiancée’ - December 20, 1883

edited by Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - June 14, 2020 Sunday

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[1] Stefano Frassetto is born in Turin in 1968. After his degree in Architecture at ‘Politecnico’ he begun as graphic novelist for local magazines. In the ‘90s he edited in France, on ‘Le Réverbère’ and on ‘Libération’ : then he created ‘Ippo’ for ‘Il Giornalino’ and then the stripe ‘35MQ’ for the swiss magazine ‘20 Minuti’. In 2000 he came into ‘La Stampa’ newspaper as portraitist for cultural page and the insert ‘Tuttolibri’, then for the weekly ‘Origami’. Today he works also for the swiss magazine ‘Le Temps’. In 2022 Frassetto published his first comic review ‘35MQ : 2012/2022 Dieci anni di inettitudine’.