This fascinating study explores the visual representation of Dante by some of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. With detailed analysis of the paintings and sculptures of Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and others, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the intersection of art and literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Portraits of Dante; From Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study, With a Concise Iconography The documentary value of old portraits. The multitude of stock figures, fanciful likenesses, and frauds. The problem of authenticity. What evidence is required. Impressionism versus investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Portraits of Dante; From Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study, With a Concise Iconography In a few words, written when all other parts of this book had passed irrevocably out of my control, I wish to make several emendations which observant readers may add to theirs. If some day another edition is published, it will be found, I hope, to have profited by all the valuable remarks that may have been made concerning this; or, if not by all, at least by all that become known to me by courtesy or chance or search. Emendations Although the error which it contains is not vital, my statement of the steps by which the Torrigiani bust (it is not a mask) was transferred from private to public ownership (page 38) should have conformed exactly with the historical data in the footnote on page 39. I avail myself of this opportunity to mention by the way a very recent 'discovery' described by Mr. P. G. Konody in The Illustrated London News for July 1, 1911; this 'discovery' illustrates various affirmations of mine, but especially some of those on the manufacture of death-masks in chapter iv. In dealing with Giotto's Dante it behoved me to lay greater stress on the difference in colouring of Kirkup's original sketch (in his Convivio) and of the Arundel print or its immediate source; fortunately both the sketch and the print are now reproduced in fascimiles so accurate that experts in evidence may be able to account fully for the obvious discrepancy by comparing the two reproductions with each other and with the testimonies quoted in chapters ix, xiii, and xiv. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The essays in this volume explore the image of Dante emerging in medieval illuminated manuscripts and later ideological and nostalgic uses of the poet. The volume also demonstrates the rich diversity of projects inspired by the Commedia both as an overall polysemic structure and as a repository of scenes, which generate a repertoire for painters, actors and film-makers. In its original multimediality, Dante's Commedia stimulates the performance of readers and artists working in different media from manuscript to stage, from ballet to hyperinstruments, from film to television. Through such a variety of media, the reception of Dante in the visual and performing arts enriches our understanding of the poet and of the arts represented at key moments of formal and structural change in the European cultural world.