Title borrowed from British physicist Stephen HAWKING (1942-2018):
“A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes” (1988).
In tribute to my father Paul, Emile, Joseph HUET (May 27, 1925 – January 24, 2021).
Pierre-Henry WILTHIEN, my husband, was born in Venaco on September 6, 1941, and died in Paris on October 25, 2016.
A Corsican, a mathematician and a professor at university, he was very involved in the fight to reduce inequalities, both in his volunteer work and in his research in mathematics.
I never got bored with him, throughout our thirty-seven years of life together.
Title borrowed from the French writer Honoré DE BALZAC (1799-1850) who gave it to his entire opus in 1845, most likely as an homage to “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri. “THE HUMAN COMEDY” by BALZAC gathers together a considerable number of novels, short stories, essays, all of which were written between 1815 and 1848 and depict a French society dominated by money.
This painting is about the pretences, the everyday lies, the fake smiles behind the masks.
“ORFEU NEGRO / BLACK ORPHEUS”, a film made in Brazil by French director Marcel CAMUS (1912-1982), with Breno MELLO and Marpessa DAWN as Orfeu and Eurydice, which won the Palme d’Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
“ed io saro Orfeo e tu Euridice e non mi voltero mai” (Patrizia VANNINI – “Parole Inattese – Poesie” – 2009)
Lorenzo de’ MEDICI (1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492), also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent for his generous sponsorship of artists such as Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and above all Michelangelo.
A humanist, scholar, poet, diplomat and powerful politician, he ruled de facto the Republic of Florence from 1469 to 1492 during Italian Renaissance.
Homage to Maryam MIRZAKHANI, 2014 winner of the Fields medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
(The Snake is a very ancient symbol of Wisdom and Science.)
