The vivid events and characters of Dante's "Divine Comedy" have inspired artists for over six centuries. This 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 collection, Charles H. Taylor and Patricia Finley illuminate the artistry of generations of the "Divine Comedy"'s illustrators and of the poem itself. Taylor and Finley examine Dante's poem as a psychological journey from the dark wood of depression, through painful purgations achieved in inner work and dreams, to the maturity of objective love that is grounded in feminine compassion. And they explore how Dante's own life journey is the necessary setting for his poem. They support their interpretation with visual images of the poet's imagined journey as created by illustrators from the naive yet skilled medieval illuminators of the fourteenth-century through artists as notable and diverse as Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni di Paolo, William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Leonard Baskin. In this book, Taylor and Finley encourage newcomers to discover the depth of Dante's insight into the essential human journey and invite those who know the "Divine Comedy" to rediscover the poem Itself.
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The captions locate the illustrations in the flow of the narrative and relate them to the primary meaning of the action at the place depicted. The authors try to provided enough information and observation about the pictures so that a reader who knows the text, or reads along in an annotated translation, can easily get its point. The essays that are interspersed with the illustrations are intended to suggest how deeply the poem explores the stages of moral and spiritual development in images that are psychologically acute for people today.
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Near the beginning of his first work-the youthful autobiography he called La vita nuova-Dante reports a dream that reflects the powerful impact of a courteous greeting from his beloved Beatrice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Interiority of Divine Reality, Earthly Paradise, Mountain of Purgatory, Gate of Dis, Fixed Stars, Joachim of Floris, Holy Spirit, Old Testament, Renato Guttuso, Saint Peter, Celestial Rose, Marco Lombardo, Milton Klonsky, Rico Lebrun New!
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Near the beginning of his first work-the youthful autobiography he called La vita nuova-Dante reports a dream that reflects the powerful impact of a courteous greeting from his beloved Beatrice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Interiority of Divine Reality, Earthly Paradise, Mountain of Purgatory, Gate of Dis, Fixed Stars, Joachim of Floris, Holy Spirit, Old Testament, Renato Guttuso, Saint Peter, Celestial Rose, Marco Lombardo, Milton Klonsky, Rico Lebrun New!
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- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 14 pages
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri on 14 pages
- The Divine Comedy of Dante (The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 21) by Dante Alighieri in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Essays & Introductions by William Butler Yeats in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Idea of the Holy by R. Otto on page 271, and Back Matter
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