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“La Divina Brick-Commedia,” Fabio Broggi

September 13, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Ho ripercorso il viaggio di Dante attraverso l’utilizzo dei mattoncini più famosi al mondo. Le diverse immagini rappresentano altrettanti passaggi del poeta lungo la discesa nei gironi infernali, fino all’incontro con Lucifero e la sua fuoriuscita nell’emisfero australe.” — Fabio Broggi

See Fabio Broggi’s Instagram account (@ilcarota) for more images from La Divina Brick-Commedia.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2018, Inferno, Legos, Sculptures, Social Media, Virgil

Ai Weiwei, Lego portrait of Dante at Palazzo Strozzi (2016)

January 16, 2017 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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See La repubblica

Contributed by Adam Glynn (Bowdoin, /17)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2016, Florence, Legos, Portraits

Nathan Sawaya, Lego sowers of discord?

May 23, 2016 By Professor Arielle Saiber

The-Art-of-the-Brick-014 (1)See The Guardian and Nathan Sawaya

 

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2016, Legos, Mahomet, Sowers of Discord

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

May 14, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“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

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