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Dante Caught Without a Mask: Street Art in Florence

May 17, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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“Fantastic this work, certainly dating back to the lockdown in March [2020] and unfortunately already in an advanced stage of deterioration. Protagonist Dante Alighieri, acknowledged father of Italian literature and language, author of the Divine Comedy, dressed as always in red and crowned with laurel. Arrested as caught without a mask by a policeman with an anti-Covid 19 mask (with an American uniform?) and by another figure in a spacesuit (an astronaut?), also with a mask!  Live-size pictures. Many metaphors can be ventured! Florence, via delle Seggiole.”   —Arte Leonardo blog, Leonardo da Vinci Art School

Categories: Places, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dante Portraits, Florence, Italy, Lockdown, Masks, Police, Street Art

GAU Dante, 2021

May 12, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Dante-Inferno-30-31-Street-Art-by-Korvo-for-GAU“GAU-Gallerie d’arte Urbana è un progetto che ha come obiettivo quello di importare un modello di risanamento urbano che riesca, a ispirare bellezza e funzionalità, attraverso la street art, applicata ad un oggetto di uso quotidiano come le campane della raccolta differenziata del vetro. Il progetto ha come obiettivo principale quello di creare un galleria d’arte urbana gratuita, fruibile in ogni momento dal cittadino, per ribadire il concetto dell’arte come bene comune, incentivando l’attenzione sulle tematiche di differenziazione dei rifiuti.

“Per la sua quinta edizione, GAU sceglie di omaggiare Dante Alighieri nel settimo centenario della sua morte. Gli artisti lavoreranno sui 34 canti dell’Inferno, attualizzandoli attraverso la peculiarità del proprio linguaggio artistico, reinterpretando simboli, luoghi e personaggi della Divina Commedia in chiave contemporanea.

“Moby Dick – Giusy Guerriero – Dez – Marta Quercioli – Zara Kiafar – Tito – Violetta Carpino – Kiddo – DesX – Yest – Er Pinto – Olives – Lola Poleggi – Kenji – BloodPurple – Orgh – Lady Nina – Teddy Killer – Valerio Paolucci – Wuarky – Karma Factory  – Muges147 – Maudit – Hoek – Alessandra Carloni – Cipstrega – Molecole – Korvo – Alekos Reize – Gojo.”   —Gallerie d’Arte Urbana

See a gallery of all 34 decorated recycling bins, one for each canto of the Inferno, on the GAU website. You can also download the magazine on the site, which includes a map where visitors to Rome can locate each bin.

The image above features Korvo’s design for cantos 30-31. Photo credit Valentino Bonacquisti.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Inferno, Italy, Paintings, Recycling, Rome, Street Art, Urban Art

Sergio Ucedo’s #Dante2018 Artwork

September 6, 2019 By Alexa Kellenberger FSU '22

Sergio Ucedo is an Argentine illustrator and graffiti artist. Ucedo created a number of striking art pieces during the #Dante2018 social media movement, such as the above piece promoting the hashtag. Ucedo also created the artwork below, which was featured in an article about #Dante2018 on Perfil.

To check out more of Ucedo’s artwork, you can follow him on Instagram and Twitter, and also visit his blog.

You can read the Perfil article that featured Ucedo’s artwork here.

See other posts related to #Dante2018 here.

Contributed by Pablo Maurette (Florida State University)

Categories: Digital Media, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: #Dante2018, 2018, Argentina, Art, Artists, Blogs, Buenos Aires, Graffiti, Illustration, Social Media, Street Art

Sirante’s recent graffiti in Rome (2018)

May 28, 2018 By Professor Arielle Saiber

This piece by Sirante is in protest of the Giro d’Italia beginning in Israel. Note Dante and Virgil in the poster, watching today’s Inferno.

The image is modeled on Gustave Doré’s illustration of the violent against God in Inferno 14.

Contributed by Virginia Jewiss 

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2018, Giro d'Italia, Graffiti, Gustave Doré, Israel, Italian Politics, Italy, Palestine, Political Commentary, Politics, Rome, Sports, Street Art, Violence

Dante in Ravenna

November 3, 2016 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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Portrait of Dante by graffiti artist Kobra in Ravenna (image captured 2016).

Contributed by Simone Marchesi

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2016, Dante Portraits, Graffiti, Italy, Ravenna, Street Art

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