O gato e a criança em Leonardo da Vinci - Desenhos!

Gosto muito da arte do desenho e de estudos dos pintores. Leonardo da Vinci é um dos que mais aprecio liguei-o a outro tema que me agrada: os gatos na pintura religiosa e não só. O gato é um animal de estimação especial pois, ele olha-nos como iguais e não é subserviente como o cão.

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Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and child with a cat, ca. 1480

British Museum

Leonardo da Vinci, Child With a Cat.

Photograph: Trustees of the British Museum, British Museum images

The Cat And The Moon by William Butler Yeats

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet.
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

"The Cat and the Moon" is reprinted from The Wild Swans at Coole. W.B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1919