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Lily Pfaff, Divine Comedy Illustrations (2014)

April 20, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“the cherubim and seraphim within the Empyrean in Dante’s Paradiso.” © Lily Pfaff, saltwort.tumblr.com

See more of Lily Pfaff’s Divine Comedy illustrations here (posted to Tumblr May 25, 2014).

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2014, Angels, Cherubim, Empyrean, Illustrations, Paradiso, Seraphim

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S02E09, 2014)

February 17, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber


The ninth episode of season 2 of the superhero-spy television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is called “Ye Who Enter Here.” The episode aired on Dec. 2, 2014.

Contributed by Su Ertekin-Taner, The Bolles School ’22

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Abandon All Hope, Superheroes, Television

“It’s Art: Resuscitated CPR Dolls & Dante’s Divine Comedy“

January 18, 2020 By lsanchez

“Today, we present German artist Thomas Zipp’s September 5, 2014 performance / exhibition, Effects of Stimulus-Range and Anchor Value on Psychophysical Judgement (The Laerdal Rehearsals). In it, Resusci Anne CPR dolls were brought “back to life” to the recorded sounds of a performance of Dante’s Divine Comedy.”    –Emerson Rosenthal, Vice, October 17, 2014

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Art, Divine Comedy, Performance Art

“Empty Nester In ‘The Woods’: A Modern Dantean Journey”

November 19, 2019 By lsanchez

“Allowing for translation, those are the immortal opening lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Here, some seven centuries later, are some of Lynn Darling’s opening lines from her new memoir, Out of the Woods: ‘The summer my only child left home for college, I moved from an apartment in New York City, to live alone in a small house at the end of a dirt road in the woods of central Vermont.'”    —Maureen Corrigan, Connecticut Public Radio, January 9, 2014

Learn more about Lynn Darling’s 2014 book Out of the Woods here.

Out of the Woods can be found on Amazon.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2014, Books, Dark Wood, Inferno, Memoirs, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura

Australian Painter Garry Shead Finds Divine Inspiration in Dante

August 6, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Gregorian chants play softly and a curl of incense drifts high into the air at Garry Shead’s studio in Bundeena on the coast of the Royal National Park.

“For almost five months, Shead, one of Australia’s best-known figurative painters, has been grappling with a new series based on Dante Alighieri’s poem, The Divine Comedy. Invoking the spirit of the 700-year-old poet has been “terribly difficult”. He grimaces as he recalls stepping up to the blank canvas every morning, regardless of whether he felt like it or not.” […]    –Ali Gripper, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 12, 2014

Check out Garry Shead’s online art gallery here.

 

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2014, Art, Australia, Divine Comedy, Illustrations, Paintings, Sydney

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