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Visions of Dante Exhibit Highlighting Cornell University’s Fiske Dante Collection

October 23, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Marking the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the exhibition of approximately 100 works in various media explores the visual nature of the Divine Comedy, which has inspired scholars and artists alike, from medieval times through today.

“Visions of Dante not only puts on display a large portion of the Fiske Collection for the first time. It also brings together works lent by notable institutions like the Morgan Library & Museum and 20th century and contemporary artists from William Blake to Salvador Dalí, Robert Rauschenberg, and Kara Walker.

“‘This exhibition reasserts the continued vibrancy of the Divine Comedy as a work of art, a work of literature, and shows the many ways in which visual artists have made their own personal interpretations and translations of that original text,’ says co-curator Andrew C. Weislogel, the Johnson’s Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art.” [. . .]    –Susan Kelley, Cornell Chronicle, September 29, 2021

The exhibit is held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and runs from September 14 – December 19, 2021.

See more information and view an online version of the exhibit here.

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Adaptations, Art, Collections, Exhibitions, Inferno, Ithaca, New York, Paradiso, Purgatorio, United States, Universities, Visual Art

Dante’s Purgatorio, video game by Charlie McKinney

October 18, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Charlie McKinney of DeMatha Catholic High School (Hyattsville, Maryland) built a text-based video game based on Dante’s Purgatorio. The game was created as a project for ethics and theology teacher Homer Twigg’s unit on Dante’s Purgatorio in 2021. Check out the game here.

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2021, High School, Hyattsville, Maryland, Pedagogy, Purgatorio, Student Projects, Students, United States, Video Games

The Dante Project, The Royal Ballet (2021)

October 11, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Presented as part of the 700th anniversary celebrations of the poet’s death, Dante’s epic journey through the afterlife, The Divine Comedy, is realised in a major artistic collaboration between trailblazing forces of the contemporary arts scene.

“In an inaugural co-production with Paris Opera Ballet and music co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Wayne McGregor’s groundbreaking choreography comes together with a virtuoso new score by one of the most influential musicians of the 21st Century, composer-conductor Thomas Adès, and designs by the acclaimed artist Tacita Dean, celebrated for her pioneering and poetic work across film and other mediums. With esteemed lighting designer Lucy Carter and dramaturg Uzma Hameed, the creative team unite in this three-part work for the full Company to illuminate the extraordinary vision of Dante.”   —The Dante Project, Royal Opera House

Book tickets here (runs from October 14-30, 2021).

Stream the ballet here (from October 29, 2021).

A couple of teasers! Watch principals Francesca Hayward and Matthew Ball rehearse Inferno 5 (Paolo and Francesca in the whirlwind), with direction from Wayne McGregor, here.

And watch principals Edward Watson and Sarah Lamb rehearse the meeting with Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise here.

Sarah Crompton, writing for The Guardian, calls the performance “bold, beautiful, emotional and utterly engaging. The opening section, Inferno, where Dante (Watson) journeys to hell in the company of Virgil (Gary Avis), all but blows your socks off.” Read the review here.

 

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Ballet, Beatrice, Canto 5, Choreography, Dance, Earthly Paradise, England, Hell, Inferno, London, Music, Paolo and Francesca, Purgatorio, Purgatory

Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man (1992)

August 27, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“Jeremy Bremen has a secret.  All his life he’s been cursed with the ability to read minds.  He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own.  For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge.  But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity.  Now Jeremy is on the run–from his mind, from his past, from himself–hoping to find peace in isolation.  Instead he witnesses an act of brutality that propels him on a treacherous trek across a dark and dangerous America.  From a fantasy theme park to the lair of a killer to a sterile hospital room in St. Louis, he follows a voice that is calling him to witness the stunning mystery at the heart of mortality.”   –Amazon

The novel is filled with references to Dante and his works, and opens with a quotation from Paradiso 17.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1992, Horror, Inferno, Literature, Novels, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Science Fiction

Poets in Purgatory (2021)

August 26, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


“Dante’s Purgatorio has been described as the most ‘human’ of the three parts of his Comedy, and it can also be seen as a ‘singing school’ for poets. This new complete translation by sixteen contemporary poets enters into dialogue with Dante’s text by rendering it in a variety of different Anglophone voices – American, Australian, British, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Singaporean. The poets in this Purgatorio adopt a range of forms, from blank verse to terza rima, and their translations are accompanied by explanatory notes, a ‘prelude’ of poems about Purgatory, and a ‘postscript’ of newly-translated medieval Italian lyrics relating to Dante and his poem.”   —Arc Publications and Amazon

Edited by Nick Havely with Bernard O’Donoghue

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Poetry, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Translations

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