Divine Comedy + Decameron discussion
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Thanks Reem!I have, however, NO monopoly on a divine comedy Pinterest collection. And I think it's a work in progress.
I have shamelessly added only my favourites... I'd be interested to see other collections.
Has anyone seen the video on the Frankfurt divine comedy exhibition? It's really fascinating.
Lily wrote: "If it is of any value to you, several of the Paradiso illustrations can be found here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group..."
I really need to take the time to go read the discussions you had on the Commedia. I read the one Reem linked for Paradiso 7 (?) and enjoyed the discussion of free will. And when I see all the art you already posted there Lily, I just think I should just link each thread in our weekly discussion! :)
ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "BP, you snooze you lose! Keren beat you to it!":P <--- that's me being very grown-up. ;)
I'm too lazy to create a pinterest page and relink everything. Doing it once here is fun, twice feels like work. So I'm verah happy Keren is collecting her favorites. :)
Lily posted even more art in the Western Canon group. And there are other very good dante pinterest pages but I can't remember where I saw them!
I still have to watch the Frankfurt video. Their exhibition looks very interesting. :)
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice has a gorgeous manuscript of the Commedia. I can't seem to find the full document but I've collected some of the images available on the internet:Inferno
http://www.superstock.com/stock-photo...
Inferno: Three Centaurs approach Dante and Virgil.
More (view spoiler)
Just a few more images from the Marciana manuscript:
Dante and the Souls Transformed into Birds
More (view spoiler)
More images (thumb-sized or watermarked) at these links:
http://www.scalarchives.it/web/ricerc...
http://www.scholarsresource.com/brows...
http://www.lessingimages.com/search.a...
Book Portrait wrote: "I still have to watch the Frankfurt video. Their exhibition looks very interesting. :) ..."From @46 -- so you don't have to go searching:
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de/en/ausste...
(It is trying to download for me right now. May have to retry later.)
Lily have you seen this documentary on Botticelli?http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYR40pA3...
It's on the Primavera but it shows the context for his work, influences etc. It helped me imagine what some of the sketches might look like if they had been painted also. Interesting the Venus and Mary figures are also like Beatrice and the graces.
Kerenmcc wrote: "It's on the Primavera but it shows the context for his work, influences etc. It helped me..."That link was actually the Inferno. I believe this is the documentary. Thx, Kerenmcc. I hadn't seen this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiEX8...
Nice documentary(/ies). Thanks for linking us. :)
One more Doré - in colour! :)
http://expositions.bnf.fr/orsay-gusta...
Dante et Virgile dans le neuvième cercle de l’Enfer
Gustave Doré (1832-1883), 1861.
Huile sur toile, 315 x 450 cm
Signé en bas à droite : « Gv Doré »
Description (in French) (view spoiler)
compared to Doré's Comedy engraving:
http://expositions.bnf.fr/orsay-gusta...
« J'entendis qu'on me disait : "Prends garde où tu marches." »
Chant XXXII, verset 19
Dessin de Gustave Doré, gravure sur bois d'Héliodore Pisan.
Planche hors texte imprimée dans L'Enfer de Dante Alighieri, avec les dessins de Gustave Doré. Traduction française de Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, accompagnée du texte italien.
Louis Hachette (Paris), 1861, p. 166.
Book Portrait wrote: "Nice documentary(/ies). Thanks for linking us. :)"I really, really enjoyed watching it -- and I didn't think I had the time -- in a way, I really didn't! :-o
Thx for pointing us in the right direction, Kerenmcc!
Glad you've been happily sidetracked too BP and Lily!
Mod
Readers and critics of Borges's "The Aleph" (El Aleph, 1945) have recognized the Dante allusions, some subtle, some obvious into the text of this intricate famous tale......
http://www.borges.pitt.edu/sites/defa...
ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Do check out : http://dante-alighieri.tumblr.com/"I haven't gone through it all yet, but it's quite creepy ;) and (seems) complete! I loved the quotes from other authors re the Commedia.
Teresa wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Do check out : http://dante-alighieri.tumblr.com/"I haven't gone through it all yet ..."
I was drawn to this illustration, clicked on it and see that it's a Dali.
http://dante-alighieri.tumblr.com/pos...
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I haven't gone through it all yet ..."
I was drawn to this illustration, clicked on it and see that..."
I liked that one as well! One of his more subdued ones.
Teresa wrote: "I was drawn to this illustration, clicked on it and see that it's a Dali.http://dante-alighieri.tumblr.com/pos......"
That one is lovely! It says Canto 1 -- of Paradiseo? (No, it is apparently for Inferno!)
One of my favorites, although not particularly "lovely," is the angel examining the drawers of himself. "Reign of the Penitents," Canto 1 of Purgatory.
Here is the entire set of Dali illustrations:
https://www.lockportstreetgallery.com...
Thanks Lily for the link to all. I think I misplaced it. It's nice to look at the ones I'm in the mood for---today I feel like the views of Paradise!
Mod
http://www.caxtonclub.org/reading/201...
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http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp...
ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "You can look up all the images in the inferno, purgatory, paradiso here:http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp..."
Well, a lot of them, but not all. I think that those of us who have been searching for these are probably amazed at the new mother lodes we keep stumbling upon. I hope someday to spend more time with the site you list @73. While I expect a lot of overlap, new surprises won't surprise me!
Here's one I haven't come across often -- but am not cross-checking these lists tonight (I do think we have had some of his as we have gone along.):
http://www.ivodavidfineart.com/Divine...
Mod
“… an urge to shut himself off from the importunities of the world and of his body and to retire into the calm of his mind …” (How many of u..."
Desperate for publication and the better life he hoped it would bring, Beckett willingly agreed to Prentice’s request. He decided to work up another story featuring the protagonist of More Pricks, Belacqua, named for the lazy lute-maker in Dante's Purgatorio. Never mind that he’d killed him off in the penultimate story of the collection. No problem, he thought; we’ll just abolish death for the duration.
The result is Echo’s Bones, whose plot, or “plot,” is simple yet convoluted. Belacqua comes back to life, or awakens to realize that he was never exactly dead, perched on a fence smoking Romeo y Julieta cigars. He converses, in the desultory, mock-learned fashion of Irish folklore, with bizarre creatures such as the huge living-yet-impotent Lord Gall of Wormwood, who incites the dead-yet-fecund Belacqua to impregnate his wife. Belacqua also holds a rambling conversation with a flirtatious prostitute named Zabarovna Privet, to whom he remarks, in typical gnomic style, “Alas, Gnaeni, the pranic bleb, is far from being a mandrake. His leprechaun lets him out about this time every Sunday.” With appropriate finality, he meets Doyle, the groundskeeper and gravedigger who appeared anonymously in “Draff,” the final story in Pricks.
In reviving Belacqua and placing him in the demented netherworld of Echo’s Bones, Beckett produced a neo-Joycean pastiche that is very likely the silliest and most turgid piece he ever wrote. Prentice turned it down flat. “It is a nightmare,” he said.
It gives me the jim-jams. . . . There are chunks I don't connect with. . . . ‘Echo’s Bones’ would, I am sure, lose the book a great many readers. People will shudder and be puzzled and confused; and they won't be keen on analysing the shudder. I am certain that ‘Echo's Bones’ would depress the sales considerably.
To read more: http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ide...
Mod
“… an urge to shut himself off from the importunities of the world and of his body and to retire into the calm..."
Joyce had made the modernist idiom, the literary idiom, the Irish idiom. Beckett, struggling to find his voice, was more susceptible than most.
By contrast, his idols Dante, Proust, and Joyce were all-inclusive putters-in, crowding their texts without limit. In an important sense, his artistic idols were his opposites.
I have been making a series of videos on the Botticelli illustrations to Purgatorio, and a new translation which weaves the explanatory notes into the text. I hope you will find my work as helpful as I have found your postings!https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Ivo wrote: "ABOUT YHE ILL.OF DIVINE COMEDY BY IVO DAVID?WWW.IVODAVIDFINE ART.COM"
Thank you for posting this, Ivo!
I tried finding a good collection of your work a number of years ago on another discussion of Dante. I only found a few at that time. Hope I can now find some time to explore what you link us to here. (I am far from the depths of Dante right now, however.)
What a challenge to do this sort of series!
http://ivodavidfineart.com/DivineCome...
Divine Comedy + Decameron
Books mentioned in this topic
Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy (other topics)Rauschenberg: Art and Life (other topics)
I'm wondering if this works for now. I'll add more of my favourites as i h..."
Love your pinterest Keren!
BP, you snooze you lose! Keren beat you to it! lol Actually Keren, you can take a lot of BP's contributions to add to your collection.