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John Flaxman : the illustrations for Dante's Divine comedy / edited by Francesca Salvadori.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2005Description: 279 pages : illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1903973597
  • 9781903973592
Other title:
  • Illustrations for Dante's Divine comedy [Portion of title]
Uniform titles:
  • Dante : la Divina commedia illustrata da Flaxman. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.64092 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ4329 .F5213 2005
Contents:
Dante : from colour to line / Carlo Ossola -- John Flaxman : sculptor and illustrator / David Bindman -- The painted atmosphere : inside John Flaxman's Dante studio / Francesca Salvadori -- The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Inferno -- Purgatory -- Paradise.
Review: "Dante's Divine Comedy, one of the masterworks of European literature, has inspired artists from Botticelli to William Blake, and from Gustave Dore to Robert Rauschenberg and Tom Phillips. The great English Neoclassical sculptor, John Flaxman, is no exception." "Flaxman's drawings for the Divine Comedy are published for the first time in this volume. Famous for his designs for Wedgwood, Flaxman illustrated all 100 cantos of Dante's poem. The book includes the complete series of drawings, together with the preparatory studies, accompanied by Flaxman's annotations. A critical commentary on each drawing completes this book, an important addition to Dante studies and Flaxman scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
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Translated from the Italian ed., Milan : Electa, 2004.

Limited ed. of 1,100 copies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dante : from colour to line / Carlo Ossola -- John Flaxman : sculptor and illustrator / David Bindman -- The painted atmosphere : inside John Flaxman's Dante studio / Francesca Salvadori -- The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Inferno -- Purgatory -- Paradise.

"Dante's Divine Comedy, one of the masterworks of European literature, has inspired artists from Botticelli to William Blake, and from Gustave Dore to Robert Rauschenberg and Tom Phillips. The great English Neoclassical sculptor, John Flaxman, is no exception." "Flaxman's drawings for the Divine Comedy are published for the first time in this volume. Famous for his designs for Wedgwood, Flaxman illustrated all 100 cantos of Dante's poem. The book includes the complete series of drawings, together with the preparatory studies, accompanied by Flaxman's annotations. A critical commentary on each drawing completes this book, an important addition to Dante studies and Flaxman scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.

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