I continue with the journey I started yesterday, nominating the candidates for the 20th century Venus of Urbino. Today I present Monica Vitti, Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve.
The axiom that guides this contribution is that what makes the Urbino Venus unique and classical is her ambivalence and unpredictability. We have to do in a sense with a naked Mona Lisa, only in this case the whole body is the protagonist of the posture, not just the mouth and the eyes.
Monica Vitti
Waiting for Godot…
A pensive look in the mirror
Que sera sera!
Faye Dunaway
I knew I was overdressed!
May you go quiet into the night
Elegance
Catherine Deneuve
She has been a beauty since her early days
In front of Helmut Newton’s lens she is the captivating eternal beauty.
I can spend a whole life looking at her without wanting to look at anything else!
As an epilogue to part 2, I remind everyone the lyrics of the song from the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
I Will Wait For You (Norman Gimbel/ Jacques Demy/ Michel Legrand)
If it takes forever I will wait for you
For a thousand summers I will wait for you
Till you’re back beside me, till I’m holding you
Till I hear you sigh here in my arms
Anywhere you wander, anywhere you go
Every day remember how I love you so
In your heart believe what in my heart I know
That forevermore I’ll wait for you
The clock will tick away the hours one by one
Then the time will come when all the waiting’s done
The time when you return and find me here and run
Straight to my waiting arms
If it takes forever I will wait for you
For a thousand summers I will wait for you
Till you’re here beside me, till I’m touching you
And forevermore sharing your love