The Seventh Triad 19-20-21:

Alpha and Omega, a long way to go but the adventure carries on. In this group there is:
The Arrival in Bethlehem, The Cosmic Holy Family, and The Adoration of the Kings. The three works are united both by their theme and by their composition. A semi-circle insinuates itself through the three works. In the centre a rain of light bathes a sphere which shelters the Holy Family, a cosmic sphere with bold lines, a unique play of chiaroscuro, for Bethlehem is the centre of the Cosmos and of all existence.

Oblique lines cross with those of the circle and create an attractive harmony. Down below there is a bay of fairy beauty with a sheet of water with a bordering coast where the fishermen are to meet the Messiah. On the left there is a path that comes from afar through a landscape of the Orient, of Lebanon, with rocks and terraces.

Mary is seated on a donkey. Saint Joseph and the donkey merge into each other in their lines and their colours. The dream bears us away. On the right the following scene shows a confused mass of people and of cherubim.

The threee kings kneeling offer their gifts. A crowd of shepherds, mothers and children, watch the spectacle. All fade into one mystical atmosphere.

The Eighth Triad 22-23-24:

Three other works are brought together by a curtain, by drapery covering the background. In the middle there is the enduring Holy Family, with the baby Jesus on his mother’s lap and Saint Joseph, this adopted earthly father, standing with his stick in his hand, against a background of bright, warm red earth.

We see the two children, Jesus and Saint John, playing together.

To the left there is a harvest scene, a luminous circle and a departure.

On the left, Jesus is seated among the doctors. He is the centre of curiosity among these authorities of the Law. To the right the drapery behind follows the first, and here the pedant Jewish doctors can be seen with their varied expressions. At the back of the Temple there is a door by which Mary and Joseph enter, searching for the divine child.

As for the harvest scene, it is rich in colour laid on thick, and the lines of the plain converge towards the circle of light.

The horizon is obscure and makes a contrast with the white drapery where the child defies the learned doctors lost in the opacity of the Scriptures.

In the centre, there are two olive trees behind the curtain. All, all, presage the coming change.

The Ninth Triad 25-26-27: The Baptism of Jesus

Two diagonals and three circles form the poetic and artistic structure here to become the groundwork of the Creation. The head of Christ is at the center and is the focal point of all the lines of the work. In the background rises Mount Hermon, from where flows the water that feeds the Jordan River. The Holy Spirit in the form of a dove hovers over Christ and Saint John. A crowd of people is divided into two planes, one to the right and the other to the left, joined by the light, the color and the hidden lines which lead the eye across the canvas.

Baptism is the passage from one state to another, one before and one after, the entry into the kingdom of Jesus, a spiritual engagement. What a great good fortune and joy to have been baptized!

This was a day of glory two thousand years ago, not far from the South of Lebanon, in a place of fairy beauty, at the foot of Mount Hermon from where flows “Lebanese” water, pure and holy.

Five actors are present: the Holy Spirit, Jesus and John, and then the Holy Virgin and the crowd gathered on the banks. The sky is that of Lebanon and of Hermon. A joyous play of mystical golden colors leaps from the depths of existence as the scene demands.

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