Dante Today

Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture

  • Submit a Citing
  • Map
  • Links
  • Bibliography
  • User’s Guide
  • Teaching Resources
  • About

Dante and Foxy Mega Toilet Paper

May 31, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

dante-and-foxy-mega-toilet-paper
Watch YouTube Video

Contributed by Elizabeth Coggeshall

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2011, Advertising, Humor, Italy, Toilet Paper, YouTube

The Nine Circles of Hell, as Depicted in LEGO (2012)

May 14, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

lego-commedia

“Here’s a series of play sets that won’t be debuting in the toy aisle anytime soon. Sculptor Mihai Mihu has built this fantastic and creepy nine-part collection of LEGO dioramas based on Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. Witness the Divine Comedy depicted in tiny plastic bricks, from the River Styx to the frozen head of Satan.” [. . .]   –Cyriaque Lamar, io9, May 12, 2012

Contributed by Carol Chiodo

See also:
The Telegraph, August 17, 2013 (note that in slide 10, the artist says that he knew the structure of Dante’s vision of hell, but that he didn’t read the Commedia, because he wanted to imagine his own version of punishments for each given sin/s)

Contributed by Leslie Morgan

Categories: Consumer Goods, Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2012, Children, Circles of Hell, Games, Hell, Humor, Legos, Romania, Sculptures

Dante’s Inferno Razor

January 2, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

dantes-inferno-razor“This is a job from a couple months ago. This was one of the most intense themes I have done. Tons of details in very small places. The theme was Dante’s Inferno and the images are based on Dore’s illustrations for the book. The toughest part was that I had to alter the images to make them fit the format of the windows. I had to make the altered images still recognizable as the classic Dore illustrations.
The ‘frames’ are sculpted and the images are bulino engraved. The scenes on the hidden panels were also bulino engraved. The knife was made by Joe Kious of Kerrville, TX.”    —Straight Razor Place, December 14, 2011

Contributed by David Israel

Categories: Consumer Goods, Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2011, Engravings, Gustave Doré, Razors, Texas

Google+ and McSweeney

August 1, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

google-and-mcsweeney
Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, August 1, 2011

Contributed by Steve Bartus (Bowdoin, ’08)

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2011, Avarice, Beatrice, Circles of Hell, Gluttony, Google, Heresy, Humor, Internet, Lust, Social Media, Violence, Wrath

Comcast Rant

July 29, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

comcast-logo

“Though I haven’t read Dante’s Inferno in its entirety, I have read enough excerpts over the years to realize that back in 1300, I’m pretty positive that Dante was extremely forward-thinking. In describing his descent into hell, he was obviously creating an allegorical representation of what it’s like to call Comcast customer service with a simple billing question on an innocent enough summer Wednesday in 2011. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate, the gates of hell read as Dante enters. ‘Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here.'” […]    –Sheena Moore, Spend Matters, July 22, 2011

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2011, Abandon All Hope, Comcast, Humor, Internet, Lasciate ogne speranza

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • …
  • 39
  • Next Page »

Categories

  • Consumer Goods (194)
  • Digital Media (126)
  • Dining & Leisure (107)
  • Music (190)
  • Odds & Ends (91)
  • Performing Arts (360)
  • Places (132)
  • Visual Art & Architecture (416)
  • Written Word (845)

Random Post

  • Fort Lewis College Theater, “Dante’s Inferno” (2008)

Frequent Tags

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 700th anniversary Abandon All Hope America American Politics Art Artists Beatrice Blogs Books California Circles of Hell Comics Dark Wood Divine Comedy England Fiction Films Florence France Games Gates of Hell Hell History Humor Illustrations Inferno Internet Italian Italy Journalism Journeys Literary Criticism Literature Love Music New York City Non-Fiction Novels Paintings Paolo and Francesca Paradise Paradiso Performance Art Poetry Politics Purgatorio Purgatory Religion Restaurants Reviews Rock Science Fiction Sculptures Social Media Technology Television Tenth Circle Theater Translations United Kingdom United States Universities Video Games Virgil

ALL TAGS »

Image Mosaic

How to Cite

Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

Creative

 





© 2006-2022 Dante Today
research.bowdoin.edu