Flaxman's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

Flaxman's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

Author: John Flaxman

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-02-20

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0486157008

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These 110 deceptively simple illustrations are the great achievement of English artist John Flaxman. Awash in pathos and recalling a classically Greek style, they have inspired such artists as Goya and Ingres.


Botticelli Past and Present

Botticelli Past and Present

Author: Ana Debenedetti

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 178735461X

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The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.


William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

Author: Eric Pyle

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1476617023

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William Blake's series of illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy was his last major project and a summation of his religious and artistic beliefs. Blake intended to engrave this series, but it was unfinished at his death. The series includes seven partially complete engravings and 102 works in various stages of completion--some of the most beautiful pictures of his career. These pictures are not simple illustrations, but constitute a thorough reinterpretation and--in Blake's view--correction of Dante's poem. This book compares the two men's theological and artistic views and analyzes in detail the meaning of Blake's illustrations, for the first time introducing their theological and aesthetic exuberance to a modern audience.


Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus

Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus

Author: John Flaxman

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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"This volume is issue in the hope that it may be useful to art students. It includes the entire series of Flaxman's compositions in illustration of the Tragedies of Aeschylus."--Publisher's notice


Visions of Heaven

Visions of Heaven

Author: Martin Kemp

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781848224674

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.


Dante on View

Dante on View

Author: Antonella Braida

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780754658962

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Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies. The volume's interdisciplinary approach to reception brings together literary criticism, visual culture and performance studies. Dante's Commedia is re-created through the performances of readers and artists in a wide range of media. The essays analyse creative uses of the poet from medieval manuscript illumination to nineteenth and twentieth-century stage productions, from film to ballet and hyperinstruments.


Dante’s Bones

Dante’s Bones

Author: Guy P. Raffa

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0674980832

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A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint’s relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de’ Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the Franciscan friar who hid the bones, the stone mason who accidentally discovered them, and the opportunistic sculptor who accomplished what princes, popes, and politicians could not: delivering to Florence a precious relic of the native son it had banished. In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006. Dante’s posthumous adventures are inextricably tied to major historical events in Italy and its relationship to the wider world. Dante grew in stature as the contested portion of his body diminished in size from skeleton to bones, fragments, and finally dust: During the Renaissance, a political and literary hero in Florence; in the nineteenth century, the ancestral father and prophet of Italy; a nationalist symbol under fascism and amid two world wars; and finally the global icon we know today.


Illustrations to Dante's Inferno

Illustrations to Dante's Inferno

Author: Eugene Paul Nassar

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-02-11

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9781523202775

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"Illustrations to Dante's Inferno" offers to a general readership, in a compact and inexpensive format, and through 400 plates, a critical overview of illustrations to the Inferno from the age of Dante to modern times.