Ad pictorem (Anonymous, set by J. Novák) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Pinge, precor, pictor, tali candore puellam,
qualem finxit amor, qualem meus ignis anhelat.

nil pingendo neges: tegat omnia Serica vestis,
quae totum prodat tenui velamine corpus:

te quoque pulset Amor, crucient pigmenta medullas.
si bonus es pictor, miser in suspiria pinge.

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Anthologia Latina

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Jan Novák (1921-1984)

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