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Max Norman laments that Joseph Luzzi’s ... noted that all the extant illustrations were reprinted, with commentary, in “The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy,” the catalog to what Mr ...
Often considered a daunting read, the Divine Comedy can also, and more approachably, be studied through its illustrations. Dante’s visions of hell, purgatory and heaven have provided a rich seam ...
What happens when you take the poetry out of Dante? If you replace the ... When it comes to illustrations of The Divine Comedy, William Blake's stunning series of watercolors, in various stages ...
Dante’s vision of ... Alamy The Divine Comedy wasn't popular in the English-speaking world until poet William Blake, who made many illustrations for it such as this, advocated strongly for ...
This 1465 fresco by Domenico di Michelino depicts Dante, holding a copy ... the opening section of The Divine Comedy—the show features illustrations by artist Federico Zuccari, who created ...
On New Year’s Day, the museum launched a free virtual exhibition of rarely-seen drawings inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s three ... The 88 illustrations on view now on the museum ...
Meanwhile, Dante devotees can log-on to the Uffizi website and view an exhibition of illustrations depicting the Divine Comedy made between 1586 and 1588 by the Italian Mannerist painter Federico ...