Seeing heaven
In Cy Twombly’s Roman apartment on Via di Monserrato, photographed by Horst P Horst in 1966, there is a sun-sloped wall dappled with paint in sanguinary colours. Mostly the carnal pinks of flushed light skin and the brown of oxidised blood; some dull blues, like the muffled bloom of a new bruise. I saw…
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