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Evelyn Paul, Stories from Dante (1911) Greeting Cards

September 17, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Spirit of the Ages’ Greeting Card Illustrations by Evelyn Paul for “Stories from Dante” (1911).

Contributed by Virginia Jewiss (Yale Humanities Program)

Categories: Consumer Goods, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1911, Greeting Cards, Illustrations

Remembering Michael Mazur’s Illustrations of the Inferno

August 30, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

michael-mazur-dies-at-73“Michael Mazur, a relentlessly inventive printmaker, painter and sculptor whose work encompassed social documentation, narrative and landscape while moving back and forth between figuration and abstraction, died on Aug. 18 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 73 and lived in Cambridge and Provincetown, Mass. [. . .]

“While attending Amherst College he studied with the printmaker and sculptor Leonard Baskin, who was teaching at Smith College. After taking a year off to study in Italy, where his lifelong fascination with Dante began, he received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art from the Yale School of Art and Architecture. [. . .]

michael-mazur-dies-at-73“After seeing an exhibition of Degas monotypes at the Fogg Museum in 1968, he began exploring that medium, most notably in the monumental Wakeby landscapes of 1983, depicting Wakeby Lake on Cape Cod, and in a series of illustrations for Robert Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s Inferno, published in 1994.” [. . .]    –William Grimes, The New York Times, August 29, 2009

Contributed by Richard Lindemann (2006)

See also the 2020 exhibit of Mazur’s work at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, Mass.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 1994, Etchings, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Inferno, Journalism, Massachusetts, Prints, Provincetown, Translations

“Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book”

August 12, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“So Yale University and Yale University Press consulted two dozen authorities, including diplomats and experts on Islam and counterterrorism, and the recommendation was unanimous: The book, “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” should not include the 12 Danish drawings that originally appeared in September 2005. What’s more, they suggested that the Yale press also refrain from publishing any other illustrations of the prophet that were to be included, specifically, a drawing for a children’s book; an Ottoman print; and a sketch by the 19th-century artist Gustave Dore’ of Muhammad being tormented in Hell, an episode from Dante’s Inferno that has been depicted by Botticelli, Blake, Rodin and Dali'” [. . .]    –Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, August 12, 2009

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, Censorship, Comics, Fiction, Illustrations, Inferno, Journalism, Reviews, Universities

Randall Graham and Alex Gross, “Da Vino Commedia”

July 7, 2009 By D. N. Israel

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See the full text of Bonny Doon Vineyard’s “The Vinferno.”

Also cited at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery in Bath, Maine by Anna Schember (Bowdoin, ’12).

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, California, Humor, Illustrations, Inferno, Poetry, Santa Cruz, Wine

Ty Templeton, “Stig’s Inferno” (1980s)

July 7, 2009 By D. N. Israel

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This 1980s series ran for 8 volumes and was loosely based on Dante’s Inferno. See the full book at Templetons.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 1980, Comics, Graphic Novels, Humor, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Inferno

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