Tag: Dante

Giovanni Boccaccio

(1313–1375) Works: • Alcesto e Acaten (Italian) • Amorosa visione (1342-1343) • Canto di Ameto (Italian) • Corbaccio (1354) • De mulieribus claris (1361) • Decameron (Italian) ◊ De Decamerone van Boccaccio (Dutch) ◊ Novelleja Decameronesta (Finnish) ◊ The Decameron…

Dante et Virgile (1850)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (70 BC-19 BC)

Ritratto di Dante (c.1495)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Dante (Portrait of Dante) c.1495 Tempera on canvas, 54.7 x 47.5 cm Private collection See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)

Eugène Delacroix

(1798–1863) Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix   The artist’s works: La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien 1820 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Un cheval attelé à un poteau c.1820 National Gallery of Art, Washington Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris Jeune orpheline au…

La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1855)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1855 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 45.72 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris  …

La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1859)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two versions by Manet of Delacroix‘s celebrated painting…

Dante et Virgile aux enfers (1822)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers, dit aussi La Barque de Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell, or The Barque of Dante) 1822 Oil on canvas, 189 x 241.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Purchased by the Directorate of…

William Blake

(1757–1827) The artist’s works: God Judging Adam 1795 Tate Britain, London God Judging Adam c.1795 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Baptism of Christ c.1799 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Job and His Daughters 1799–1800 National Gallery of Art, Washington St. Matthew 1799…

Dante Alighieri: Quotations

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) “Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria.” (There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time In misery.) Divina Commedia, Inferno, V “Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona, mi prese del…

Giorgio Vasari

(1511–1574) The artist’s works: Ritratto di Lorenzo il Magnifico c.1533–1534 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Tentazioni di San Gerolamo 1541 Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Cristo in casa di Simone il fariseo 1544 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Sei poeti toscani 1544 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Sacra Famiglia…