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Martin Kemp, Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light (2021)

October 23, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

visions-of-heaven-dante-and-the-art-of-divine-light-martin-kemp-cover“In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante’s supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante’s vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante’s ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante’s Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante s acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante s earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. [. . .] Published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, this hugely original book combines a close reading of Dante’s poetry with analysis of early optics and the art of the Renaissance and Baroque to create a fascinating, wide-ranging and visually exciting study.”    — Amazon (retrieved October 18, 2021)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Art, Books, Fine Art, Inferno, Light, Non-Fiction, Optics, Paradiso, Poetry, Purgatorio, Renaissance, Vision

Beatrice’s Eyes and Beauty in The Divine Comedy

June 10, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“A scholarly essay published in VoegelinView describing the symbolism of Beatrice’s eyes in The Divine Comedy. The essay also has a few references to how such symbolism, and the role of Beatrice in general, are relevant to us today.”    –Darrell Falconburg, VoegelinView, December 22, 2020

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Beatrice, Eyes, Paradise, Purgatory, Symbolism, Vision

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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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