Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light

by Martin Kemp

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848224672
• ISBN13: 9781848224674
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.5"