I've just been to the Moreau exhibition at NGV. Parallels with Cavafy struck me: a somewhat reclusive person who had a deep fascination with sexuality, and who found a way to express the personal relevance of classical stories through distinctive reworkings. The Symbolist common ground with Vrubel was immediately apparent. The blurred violence of one picture of a decpaitated John the Baptist looked like something from Francis Bacon.
