Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the CommediaThis book explores the interconnections of Dante's Divine Comedy and four modern painters: Nattini, Rauschenberg, Dalmodern painters: Nattini, Rauschenberg, Dalí, 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 it has imposed its anatomical realism on most illustrators from the Renaissance (epitomized by Michelangelo) down to the present. The premise holds through the poetic realism of Nattini, the socio-political expressionism of Rauschenberg, the psychological surrealism and devout religiosity of Dalí, and the pictorial figurative and non-figurative art of Phillipps. |
Contents
Dantes Painterly Vision | 3 |
A Prodigious Lineage | 17 |
The Poetic Realism of Nattini | 49 |
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abstract aesthetic angel appears artist Barricelli Beatrice Blake Blake's Botticelli Caiaphas canticle Canto centaurs century Charon Christian Classical Cocytus colors composition concept Dalí's Dante Alighieri Dante illustration Dante's vision Dantean demons divina commedia Divine Comedy Doré Doré's drawings emotional example existential Farinata figures Flaxman Florence Florentine fresco Gates Geryon Gustave Doré Heaven Hell human body images Inferno I Plate Inferno XIV Inferno XXXIII inspiration Kenneth Clark Koch landscapes light Lucifer medieval Michelangelesque Michelangelo miniaturists Minos modern moral motif Nattini naturalistic nature neo-Platonic oneiric optic painter painterly vision painting Paradiso perspective Phillipps Phlegethon pictorial picture poem poet poet's poetic portray Purgatorio Purgatorio VII realism Renaissance representation reveals Robert Rauschenberg Rodin Romantic Salvador Dalí scene sculpture sense shapes Signorelli sinners souls spiritual stress studies style surrealistic symbolic T. S. Eliot tions Ugolino underscores VIII Virgil visual Volkmann watercolors XXIII XXIV XXXI XXXIV