While Petrarch’s Laura and her descendants display the beauty of youth, later twists on tradition, under sway of baroque aesthetics, wither spring roses to winter wreckage. The versatile Giambattista Basile (1575?-1632) turned out madrigals of young charmers in amorous moments as readily as bawdy caricatures of their crumbling elders, best among them two grotesquely aged sisters, “il riassunto delle disgrazie” (1995,199-200). Comic satire of female decrepitude is, in fact, plentiful in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Less frequently, art pays tribute to members of the fair sex in their twilight. Ladies more fortunate than Basile’s hags are likely to be cherished family members, the artist’s mother or his wife, or simply an unnamed beloved, whose faithful admirer follows her into the sunset of life.

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生命寒冬中的女人

彼特拉克的劳拉和她的后代展现青春之美，后来在传统的扭曲下，在巴洛克美学的影响下，春天的玫瑰枯萎成为冬天的残骸。多才多艺的 Giambattista Basile（1575？-1632）在多情的时刻变成了年轻迷人的牧歌，就像他们摇摇欲坠的长辈的淫秽漫画一样容易，其中最好的是两个怪诞的姐妹，“il riassunto delle disgrazie”（1995，199-200） . 事实上，在 16 和 17 世纪，大量讽刺女性衰老的喜剧。不太常见的是，艺术向暮光之城的公平性成员致敬。比 Basile 的女巫更幸运的女士们可能是受人珍视的家庭成员、艺术家的母亲或他的妻子，或者仅仅是一位无名的心爱的人，她的忠实崇拜者会跟随她进入生命的日落。