Dulcinea

Oil on canvas
48” x 60”
I thrive in and by love. I like many lovers can say along with Don Quixote: “The reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty.”
A modest peasant becomes in Don Quixote’s eyes his princess, his “Dulce amor”, his sweetheart.
“Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and upon her he thought fit to confer the title of Lady of his Thoughts; and after some search for a name which should not be out of harmony with her own, and should suggest and indicate that of a princess and great lady, he decided upon calling her Dulcinea del Toboso -she being of El Toboso- a name, to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had already bestowed upon himself and the things belonging to him”