PICASSO, ANGELO AND DA VINCI

Picasso was no Angelo
and Angelo was no Da Vinci,
but two were commissioned
by the high omniscient pope.

One commission was interrupted
by the pope’s volition to divert funds
to Bramante’s rebuilding
of St Peter’s.

Great sorrow
would be experienced
by one.

The high Renaissance
produced a cluster of
extraordinary geniuses
during the fifteenth century.

Some say, Da Vinci was a
necromancer and other
scholars disagree.

Mona Lisa smiles
her heady smile at David
and David, with his
spastic muscles, loved
the Demoiselles (tramps)
amid the Avignon
(the red-light district)
in Barcelona.

If Da Vinci was considered
the first scientist of the
modern world
was Picasso
the second?

Surely this was an anomie
in both centuries
(15th and 20th).

Two were considered
masters
and one,
a cubist.

The old continuity
of composition
was shattered by one.

The assumption
beginning in the Renaissance
was given up,
came to an end
in the twentieth century.

All three
were considered
great artists
of their time.

All three
depicted
through their art,
the conceptual morals, values
and
ideologies
of a changing world,
in both
centuries.
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