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020 $a9781848224674$qhardback
035 $a(OCoLC)1183423539
050 4 $aPQ4381$b.K46 2021
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100 1 $aKemp, Martin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aVisions of heaven :$bDante and the art of divine light /$cMartin Kemp.
264 1 $aLondon :$bLund Humphries,$c2021.
264 4 $c©2021
300 $a239 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c26 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index.
520 8 $aDante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in learning embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. 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. 00A 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. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists? portrayal of unseeable brightness. When Saul falls from his horse in Michelangelo?s Vatican fresco, the hand with which he shields his eyes casts no shadow. Divine light does not obey earthly rule, as Dante stressed. 00Published 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.
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650 0 $aHeaven in literature.
650 0 $aHeaven in art.
650 0 $aLight in art.
650 0 $aNimbus (Art)
650 0 $aArt, Renaissance.
650 0 $aArt, Baroque.
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650 7 $aArt, Renaissance.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00816786
650 7 $aHeaven in art.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00954118
650 7 $aHeaven in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00954119
650 7 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00972484
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