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GAU Dante, 2021

May 12, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Dante-Inferno-30-31-Street-Art-by-Korvo-for-GAU“GAU-Gallerie d’arte Urbana è un progetto che ha come obiettivo quello di importare un modello di risanamento urbano che riesca, a ispirare bellezza e funzionalità, attraverso la street art, applicata ad un oggetto di uso quotidiano come le campane della raccolta differenziata del vetro. Il progetto ha come obiettivo principale quello di creare un galleria d’arte urbana gratuita, fruibile in ogni momento dal cittadino, per ribadire il concetto dell’arte come bene comune, incentivando l’attenzione sulle tematiche di differenziazione dei rifiuti.

“Per la sua quinta edizione, GAU sceglie di omaggiare Dante Alighieri nel settimo centenario della sua morte. Gli artisti lavoreranno sui 34 canti dell’Inferno, attualizzandoli attraverso la peculiarità del proprio linguaggio artistico, reinterpretando simboli, luoghi e personaggi della Divina Commedia in chiave contemporanea.

“Moby Dick – Giusy Guerriero – Dez – Marta Quercioli – Zara Kiafar – Tito – Violetta Carpino – Kiddo – DesX – Yest – Er Pinto – Olives – Lola Poleggi – Kenji – BloodPurple – Orgh – Lady Nina – Teddy Killer – Valerio Paolucci – Wuarky – Karma Factory  – Muges147 – Maudit – Hoek – Alessandra Carloni – Cipstrega – Molecole – Korvo – Alekos Reize – Gojo.”   —Gallerie d’Arte Urbana

See a gallery of all 34 decorated recycling bins, one for each canto of the Inferno, on the GAU website. You can also download the magazine on the site, which includes a map where visitors to Rome can locate each bin.

The image above features Korvo’s design for cantos 30-31. Photo credit Valentino Bonacquisti.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Inferno, Italy, Paintings, Recycling, Rome, Street Art, Urban Art

Dante’s Pizza & Pasta, Klerksdorp, South Africa

May 12, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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Dante’s Pizza & Pasta is located in La Piazza Square in Klerksdorp, South Africa.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Places
Tagged with: 2013, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Italian Restaurants, Klerksdorp, Pasta, Pizza, Restaurants, South Africa

Customizable Dante Apparel

November 16, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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Customizable apparel companies like Redbubble, Zazzle, and teepublic feature countless Dante-related t-shirts and other items, like this “Dante’s Inferno Classic T-shirt“—featuring Botticelli’s portrait of the poet, along with the verse “Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate”—designed by user momulo-macheras on Redbubble.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: Apparel, Clothing, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Fashion, Inferno, Lasciate ogne speranza

An American Werewolf In London (1981)

November 28, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

In John Landis’ 1981 cult classic An American Werewolf In London, at 65:30 you can see a bust of Dante Alighieri in the Doctor’s study.

You can watch the full movie on Amazon Prime, Youtube, Google Play, Vudu, and on iTunes.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1981, Face of Dante, Films, Horror, Sculptures

Dante and Hugh Grant

December 21, 2017 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“In the children’s film Paddington 2 (December 2017), the vain and pretentious villain, Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant), keeps a bust of Dante’s head among the lavish collection of photographs of himself in his London drawing room. A publicity featurette shows the actor Hugh Grant with his Dante head at 0:21 seconds, coinciding with the words “incredible vanity.”    –Cormac O Cuilleanain

Contributed by Cormac O Cuilleanain

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Face of Dante, Films

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