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Alberto Martini’s Illustrations of the Divine Comedy (1901-1944)

April 9, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

alberto-martinis-haunting-illustrations-of-dantes-divine-comedy“In 1901, Vittorio Alinari, head of Fratelli Alinari, the world’s oldest photographic firm, decided to publish a new illustrated edition of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’ To do so, Alinari announced a competition for Italian artists: each competitor had to send illustrations of at least two cantos of the epic poem, which would result in one winner and a public exhibition of the drawings. Among the competitors were Alberto Zardo, Armando Spadini, Ernesto Bellandi, and Alberto Martini.” [. . .]    —Open Culture, November 6, 2013

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1901, 1944, 2013, Illustrations, Italy

“Divine Triptych” Digital Art

April 9, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

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“The Divine Comedy is an exploration of the relationship between literature, 3D, stereoscopy and hand-drawn illustration. Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s and Gustave Dore’s classic works, technical artist William Dube and I recreate Dante’s epic quest through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The work was made in Maya and  Mudbox.”    —Behance

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2014, Digital Arts, Illustrations, Triptychs

Malbolge: an Esoteric Programming Language

April 5, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

malbolge-programming-language“Malbolge, invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, is an esoteric programming language designed to be as difficult to program in as possible. The first ‘Hello, world!’ program written in it was produced by a Lisp program using a local beam search of the space of all possible programs. It is modeled as a virtual machine based on ternary digits.” [. . .]

“The language is named after ‘Malebolge,’ the eighth level of hell in Dante’s Inferno, which is reserved for perpetrators of fraud. The actual spelling ‘Malbolge’ is also used for the sixth hell in the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 1998, Computers, Inferno, Language, Malebolge

Buzzfeed’s 23 Circles of Hell That Should Exist for the Modern Age

March 29, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

buzzfeed-fourteenth-circle-of-hell
Buzzfeed has created a list of the “23 Circles of Hell That Should Exist for the Modern Age.” After Dante’s first nine circles, Adam Ellis has come up with thirteen more from the tenth circle (people who talk at the theater) to the twenty-third (Justin Bieber’s tattoo artist). See the complete list on Buzzfeed.

Contributed by Humberto González Chávez

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2014, Circles of Hell, Hell, Humor, Web Comics

Jennifer Moses, “In Search of Oxford”

March 29, 2014 By Gretchen Williams '14

in-search-of-oxford-bodleian-libraryJennifer Moses describes the Bodleian Library at Oxford: “. . .Certain key scenes in the Harry Potter franchise were filmed here, but if it’s more current stuff you’re after, go through the courtyard to the Radcliffe Camera, a classical circular building closed to the public but open to students, who these days are as likely to be studying their Facebook pages as their Dante, but whatever. There’s an almost endless amount of music, theater, dance, movies and lectures to go to in and around the university, as well as evensong at Christ Church Cathedral and various college chapels.”    –Jennifer Moses, “In Search of Oxford,” The New York Times, March 21, 2014

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2014, England, Libraries, Oxford

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