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Paolo Barbieri’s Illustration of the Commedia

March 11, 2013 By Professor Arielle Saiber

paolo-barbieri-illustraion-of-dantes-inferno“È uno degli illustratori di albi e copertine fantasy più apprezzati in Italia. Il suo volume precedente, ‘Favole degli dei’, omaggia i miti dell’antica Grecia. Ma stavolta il mantovano Paolo Barbieri punta più in alto, ridisegnando addirittura la cantica più celebre della letteratura italiana. ‘L’inferno di Dante’ (122 pagine, edizioni Mondadori) sarà presentato a Napoli giovedì 21 marzo nell’aula magna dell’Accademia di belle arti. Il volume (122 pagine edite da Mondadori ), in parte ispirato alle celebri e immortali illustrazioni ottocentesche di Gustave Doré, descrive gran parte delle ambientazioni e dei personaggi che il Sommo poeta incontra nella sua discesa agli inferi, accompagnato da Virgilio. Da Paolo e Francesca al conte Ugolino, passando per Ulisse e Cerbero, ogni tavola è anche accompagnata dalle terzine a cui è ispirata. La presentazione è curata dalla scuola Comix di via Atri, diretta da Mario Punzo. Come anche il successivo workshop (info e costi 081 459 643) che Paolo Barbieri terrà  nei due giorni successivi, venerdì 22 e sabato 23. In programma, la realizzazione di un’illustrazione a tema libero, in bianco e nero o a colori, da sviluppare successivamente in digitale.”    –Paolo de Luca, La Repubblica, March 2013

Contributed by Michael Hannaman (Bowdoin, ’13)

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2013, Illustrations, Inferno, Italy

Lucca Comics and Games Festival: “A Riveder le Stelle” (2021)

March 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“‘Lucca Comics & Games is a unique cross-media event dedicated to pop culture, cosplay, and comics held in a medieval Tuscan town,’ said Emanuele Vietina, Director of Lucca Comics & Games.

“This year Italy is honouring poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri by celebrating the 700th anniversary of his death and Dante’s Divine Comedy sets the tone for the returning festival with this year’s theme being ‘rebehold the stars: light’.

“‘The theme of Light will visually accompany the Festival experience with contemporary Italian illustrator Paolo Barbieri creating the image of Lucca Comics & Games poster (above). In the year of Dante’s celebrations, he creates a link between Lucca Comics & Games to Dante’s journey with Virgil through the darkness of Hell.” [. . .]    —SciFiNow, September 24, 2021 (retrieved March 8, 2022)

The festival took place, in-person, from October 29 – November 1, 2021.

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Comics, Cosplay, Festivals, Games, Italy, Lucca, Pop Culture, stelle

Dante Traveling Exhibition, Athens (2021)

November 21, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Athens is the second European city after Belgrade to host the show, titled ‘Dante Ipermoderno– Dante illustrated in the world, 1983-2021.’ After the Greek capital, the exhibition will travel to Prague, Moscow, London, and Madrid.

“Five internationally known illustrators took it upon themselves to depict the shocking images described by Dante in his monumental work The Divine Comedy: Paolo Barbieri, Monica Baisner, Domenico Palantino, Tom Phillips, and Emiliano Ponzi.” [. . .]    —Ekathimerini, January 6, 2021

See more information about the art exhibit here.

Relatedly, see our posts about Paolo Barbieri here and Tom Phillips here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Art, Athens, Belgrade, Exhibitions, Greece, Hell, Illustrations, London, Madrid, Moscow, Prague, Purgatory, Visual Arts

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