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Cecco Bonanotte: Inferno
La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
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The Inferno of the Divine Comedy illustrated by the plates by the contemporary artist
The Inferno of The Divine Comedy illustrated by the plates by the contemporary artist.
The volume presents the full text of the Inferno of The Divine Comedy beautifully illustrated by Cecco Bonanotte's plates, created in a sophisticated mixed technique that simultaneously exploits the tools of printing and those of drawing.
The extraordinary illustrations that accompany Dante's trip through Hell are awash with compositional and spatial solutions in which the artist prioritizes the sense of verticality evinced by means of an accelerated movement towards the abysses and the depths of the earth. The skilful, virtuous use of pencil, graphite and charcoal and the rare blood-red accents underpin an incisive, lacerated, nervous sign-based language.
The exceptionally high quality of the drawing through which Bonanotte achieves the darkest, deepest blacks and the blinding transparencies of a dayless light is associated with a potent vision of the space - a vision lacerated by force lines, beams of light and incision-like marks, which break up the whole and recompose it in a new order.
The volume presents the full text of the Inferno of The Divine Comedy beautifully illustrated by Cecco Bonanotte's plates, created in a sophisticated mixed technique that simultaneously exploits the tools of printing and those of drawing.
The extraordinary illustrations that accompany Dante's trip through Hell are awash with compositional and spatial solutions in which the artist prioritizes the sense of verticality evinced by means of an accelerated movement towards the abysses and the depths of the earth. The skilful, virtuous use of pencil, graphite and charcoal and the rare blood-red accents underpin an incisive, lacerated, nervous sign-based language.
The exceptionally high quality of the drawing through which Bonanotte achieves the darkest, deepest blacks and the blinding transparencies of a dayless light is associated with a potent vision of the space - a vision lacerated by force lines, beams of light and incision-like marks, which break up the whole and recompose it in a new order.
Extent: 272 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour
Publication date: 2025-12-05
Size: 28.8 x 24.6 cm
ISBN: 9788857249162
About the Authors
Micol Forti has been Director of the Contemporary Art Collection of the Vatican Museums since 2000.
Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani, art historian and museologist, has been Director of Uffizi.
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