Jenseitsbilder: Dantes Commedia und ihr Weiterleben im Weltgericht bis 1500

Theresa Holler

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Jenseitsbilder

Dantes Commedia und ihr Weiterleben im Weltgericht bis 1500

Theresa Holler

Volume 29 in the series Italienische Forschungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, I Mandorli

Overview

About this book

Dante’s Commedia intensively influenced the concept of the afterlife for people in Italy. But how did artists react to Dante’s imaginary world of images in their visual constructions of the Last Judgment? Based on cycles of wall paintings by artists from Giotto to Signorelli, the author shows how the Commedia altered the traditional picture theme of Judgment Day for the first time. Dante’s landscape of the afterlife enabled painters to visualize new pictorial spaces that did not necessarily have a direct connection to the text, but make reference to it nevertheless.

The consideration of this complex pictorial program that is undertaken in this book in turn opens up new ways of understanding the reception and interpretation of the Commedia, so that text and image enter into a productive dialogue.

Author information

Theresa Holler, Universität Bern.

Reviews

„In dieser Dissertationsschrift unternimmt Theresa Holler einen breit angelegten Streifzug durch die Kunst und Architektur bis ca. 1500. Feinsinnig untersucht sie Rezeptionslinien der kanonisch gewordenen Commedia” (Johannes Groß in lehrerbibliothek.de, 07.2021)

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)
Audience: Kunsthistoriker, Literaturwissenschaftler
Pages
- Main content: 378
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 132
- Coloured Illustrations: 30
Keywords: Jenseits (Motiv); Trecento; Quattrocento

Paperback

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783422981317