Lucida Mansi - The Last Night

Lucida Mansi is the embodiment of how beauty and ambition can turn into guilt. Her story mirrors a society that rewards appearance yet fears the strength of those who possess it.

1. My sentence is eternal 

You watched me, desired me, judged me. But I was alive, and I wanted to live.

2. The reflection of my damnation 

I have not vanished—you wove me into the trees, the water, the whispers of the night.

3. You made me a legend 

You turned me into a story. Now I am everywhere, and everywhere I remain.

Lucida Mansi, an emblematic figure of allure and ambition, carries with her the magnetism and contradictions of an era. Born into one of Lucca’s most influential families, raised amid the opulence of the Silk Road, her story is woven between reality and legend. Celebrated for her beauty, feared for her audacity, her name has survived through the centuries, transforming her into an icon of seduction and mystery. This triptych brings her back to the present—beyond the myth—revealing the essence of a woman who defied time and the rules imposed upon her.

Analysis of the Three Images of Lucida Mansi

Lucida Mansi was both woman and legend, praised and condemned in equal measure. Accused of vanity and a hunger for power, hers is the story of someone who sought to assert herself in a world that sought to imprison her. Memory has turned her into an icon, but the reflection she casts is that of a society that judges women harshly.

The triptych traces her existence through three fragments: her body, her reflection, her place. Beauty sculpted by light, a face dissolving between dream and enchantment, architecture as the mirror of her immortality. Three autonomous yet intertwined images, wrapped in a golden veil that evokes both myth and the relentless passage of time.

Lucida is not just a shadow of the past—she is a presence that challenges time. Her body was desired and judged, her face faded into legend, her name remains etched into the stones of the city. Perhaps she did not only want to stay young—perhaps she simply wanted to remain.