Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia

by Jean-Pierre Barricelli

This book explores the interconnections of Dante's Divine Comedy and four modern painters: Nattini, Rauschenberg, Dalmodern painters: Nattini, Rauschenberg, Dal , and Phillipps. It argues for Dante's painterly vision, and in this context establishes the medieval poet as a pre-Renaissance presence, pointing to his Classical, naturalistic manner of seeing, among other things, the human figure. His optic, Barricelli maintains, is so forceful that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820415588
• ISBN13: 9780820415581
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 154 Pages