Dante, Artist of Gesture

by Heather Webb

Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images or scenes in medieval places of worship, such as the mosaics in the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence or the frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, establish not only narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192866990
• ISBN13: 9780192866998
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.9"