My favorite sculpture. There are many different castings of "The Kiss," and I have seen one of them in person at the National Gallery of Art, but this image strikes me as especially beautiful...because of the lighting. The tender, but passionate embrace of the two lovers fated for Dante's Inferno, is shown in a bright light that is full of contrasts. Bright, but soft. Modest, but dramatic. It is most intensely focused on their faces, but it also glimmers on the muscles, curves, and gentle touches of the couple's hands. They are not hewn (?) completely out of the rock, but are still part of it, frozen in their embrace forever. The light so intensely shining in their faces further explains that they will (artistically speaking [of course realistically speaking this is an obvious point]) always be in this one position, poised in an act of love; ie, the light does not move.
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