Images of the journey in Dante's Divine Comedy
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TextNew Haven, CT Yale University Press c1997Description: xvi, 295p.; ill.; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-300-06834-4
- PQ4329 .T39 1997
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'An illustrated and interpretive guide to the poet's sacred vision, with 257 annotated illustrations selected from six centuries of artistic response to the poem.'
Introduction: Beatrice the heart-eater. 1 Hell: depression and despair (The Inferno). 2 Purgatory: suffering, dreams and insight (The Purgatorio). 3 Paradise: the interiority of divine reality (The Paradiso). Conclusion: exile and the price of completion
'The vivid events and characters of Dante's Divine Comedy--one of the most powerful expressions of sacred imagination in all literature--have inspired artists for over six centuries. This magnificently illustrated book assembles more than 250 illustrations of Dante's poem, created by fifteen known artists and some twenty anonymous illuminators to depict every aspect of the pilgrim's journey to the depths of Hell, the mountain of Purgatory, and the heavenly spheres of Paradise. Through twenty short essays and commentaries on each painting or drawing in this unique collection, Charles H. Taylor and Patricia Finley illuminate the artistry of generations of the Divine Comedy's illustrators and of the poem itself.'
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