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violently out of an old book which I couldn’t identify; perhaps a collage album。

Obviously; Master Osman was overlooking quite a lot。

When we came to his own worktable; Nuri Effendi proudly stated that he

finished a gilded royal insignia for Our Sultan; which he’d been working on for

three weeks。 I respectfully admired Nuri Effendi’s gold inlay and the insignia;

which had been made on an empty sheet to ensure that its recipient and the

reason for its being sent would remain secret。 I knew well enough that many

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impetuous  pashas  in  the  East  had  refrained  from  rebellion  upon  seeing  the

noble and potent splendor of the Sultan’s royal insignia。

Next;  we  saw  the  last  masterpieces  that  Jemal  the  Calligrapher  had

transcribed;  pleted  and  left  behind;  but  we  passed  over  them  hastily  to

avoid giving credence to opponents of color and decoration who maintained

that  true  art  consisted  of  calligraphy  alone  and  that  decorative  illumination

was simply a secondary means of adding emphasis。

Nas?r the Limner was making a mess of a plate he intended to repair from a

version of the Quintet of Nizami dating back to the era of Tamerlane’s sons;

the picture depicted Hüsrev looking at a naked Shirin as she bathed。

A niy…two…year…old former master who was half blind and had nothing

to say besides claiming that sixty years ago he kissed Master Bizhad’s hand in

Tabriz and that the great master of legend was blind and drunk at the time;

showed us with trembling hands the ornamentation on the pen box he would

present as a holiday gift to Our Sultan when it was pleted three months

hence。

Shortly  a  silence  enveloped  the  whole  workshop  where  close  to  eighty

painters; students and apprentices worked in the small cells which constituted

the  lower  floor。  This  was  a  postbeating  silence;  the  likes  of  which  I’d

experienced many times; a silence which would be broken at times by a nerve…

wracking  chuckle  or  a  witticism;  at  times  by  a  few  sobs  or  the  suppressed

moan  of  the  beaten  boy  before  his  crying  fit  would  remind  the  master

miniaturists  of  the  beatings  they  themselves  received  as  apprentices。  But  the

half…blind  niy…two…year…old  master  caused  me  to  sense  something  deeper

for  a  moment;  here;  far  from  all  the  battles  and  turmoil:  the  feeling  that

everything  was  ing  to  an  end。  Immediately  before  the  end  of  the  world;

there would also be such silence。

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight。

As I kissed Master Osman’s hand to bid him farewell; I felt not only great

respect toward him; but a sentiment that plunged my soul into turmoil: pity

mixed  with  the  adoration  befitting  a  saint;  a  peculiar  feeling  of  guilt。  This;

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