Seen in The New Yorker, Dec. 5, 2012
Contributed by Jess Esch
Peter Kattenberg’s Progress on the Divine Comedy
Sunday, Sept. 12th, 2010 an exposition of Peter Kattenberg’s work in progress on Dante’s Divina Commedia will open at Arminius, Rotterdam (NL). The guerilla exhibition is part of Festival Witte de With that celebrates the opening of the new Arts Season. Kattenberg’s Dante exposition runs up to Dante’s Day of Death (Sept. 14th) to commemorate the poet and opens during a remonstrant church service to give Dante a new lease on life, both visually and spiritually.
See mores images on YouTube and Vimeo.
Also, at Leiden University Library, there is an exhibition called “Dante, Darling of the People” that opens Sept 14th, 2010.
Dante’s Inferno – A Natural History
Dante’s Inferno has been extensively illustrated, with accompanying notes, by Fabrica, a brand new book published by Mondadori, appearing in bookstores from May 25, 2010. More than 300 illustrations, all hand-made using different techniques and all accompanied by in-depth notation: a meticulous work, which gives the reader a fresh and original interpretation of one of the greatest masterpieces of everlasting literature. Fabrica assigned this project to two young English artists, Patrick Waterhouse and Walter Hutton.
Watch the making of the book on Vimeo.
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Agnolo Bronzino at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2010)
“This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and presents nearly all the known drawings by or attributed to this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence.” [. . .] —The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“. . .A leading intellectual of the time testified that the painter had memorized all of Dante and much of Petrarch.” [. . .] –Peter Schejeldahl, The New Yorker, March 3, 2010
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Anna Booth, “Inf. XXVI” (2006)
Photo by Anna Booth
