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Go Nagai, Mao Dante (1971)

September 8, 2013 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

mao-dante-go-nagai-divine-comedyConsidered one of the most important authors of Japanese manga, Go Nagai is creator of a Dante-inspired comic series called Mao Dante (also known as Demon Lord Dante in English). Nagai published the first series in 1971, and he has revisited these Dantesque themes, characters, and images in several series since (among them his 1972 anime series Devilman). Nagai’s illustrations were originally inspired by the dramatic 19th century lithographs Gustave Doré produced for the Divine Comedy. In 2017, it was announced that J-Pop would re-release Mao Dante (see here).

See also Dante Today‘s posts on Nagai’s Dante Shinkyoku and Devilman Lady.

Click here for a discussion of Go Nagai’s work in relation to three other Dante-inspired graphic novelists (article in Italian).

Contributed by Andrea Sartori

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 1971, Comics, Demons, Graphic Novels, Gustave Doré, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Inferno, Japan, Manga

Illustrations by Mattotti, Glaser, and Moebius (1999)

July 16, 2013 By Gretchen Williams '14

lorenzo-mattotti-inferno-1999     milton-glaser-purgatorio-1999     moebius-paradiso-1999

In 1999, Nuages Gallery in Milan published these three illustrated editions of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. See Nuages to learn more about the illustrators (Lorenzo Mattotti, Milton Glaser, and Moebius) and the project as a whole.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 1999, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Inferno, Italy, Milan, Paradiso, Purgatorio

Divine Comedy Illustrations by Miquel Barceló

July 15, 2013 By Gretchen Williams '14

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This series of watercolor illustrations, painted by Spanish artist Miquel Barceló, exhibited at the Louvre in 2004.

See Torresani-edu for more information.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2004, France, Illustrations, Spain, Watercolors

Paolo Barbieri’s Illustration of the Commedia

March 11, 2013 By Professor Arielle Saiber

paolo-barbieri-illustraion-of-dantes-inferno“È uno degli illustratori di albi e copertine fantasy più apprezzati in Italia. Il suo volume precedente, ‘Favole degli dei’, omaggia i miti dell’antica Grecia. Ma stavolta il mantovano Paolo Barbieri punta più in alto, ridisegnando addirittura la cantica più celebre della letteratura italiana. ‘L’inferno di Dante’ (122 pagine, edizioni Mondadori) sarà presentato a Napoli giovedì 21 marzo nell’aula magna dell’Accademia di belle arti. Il volume (122 pagine edite da Mondadori ), in parte ispirato alle celebri e immortali illustrazioni ottocentesche di Gustave Doré, descrive gran parte delle ambientazioni e dei personaggi che il Sommo poeta incontra nella sua discesa agli inferi, accompagnato da Virgilio. Da Paolo e Francesca al conte Ugolino, passando per Ulisse e Cerbero, ogni tavola è anche accompagnata dalle terzine a cui è ispirata. La presentazione è curata dalla scuola Comix di via Atri, diretta da Mario Punzo. Come anche il successivo workshop (info e costi 081 459 643) che Paolo Barbieri terrà  nei due giorni successivi, venerdì 22 e sabato 23. In programma, la realizzazione di un’illustrazione a tema libero, in bianco e nero o a colori, da sviluppare successivamente in digitale.”    –Paolo de Luca, La Repubblica, March 2013

Contributed by Michael Hannaman (Bowdoin, ’13)

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2013, Illustrations, Inferno, Italy

1000+ illustrations of the Commedia from Cornell University’s Fiske Dante Collection on Shared Shelf

December 18, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

1000-illustrations-of-the-commedia-from-cornell-universitys-fiske-dante-collection-on-shared-shelf “Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divina Commedia has had an incalculable impact on Western culture, not least through its inspiration of visual artists. After all, Dante’s descriptions of grotesque figures, fantastic landscapes, and inventive punishments virtually beg to be depicted visually.
Now anyone can view and download approximately 1,000 of these images from eleven editions of the poem published between 1487 and 1846 courtesy of Cornell University Library’s Divine Comedy Image Archive (DCIA). These images are available free in Shared Shelf Commons, the open-access library of images from institutions that subscribe to Shared Shelf, ARTstor’s Web-based service for cataloging and managing digital collections. The DCIA plans to make available a total of approximately 2,000 images from editions dating through 1921.”    —Artstor, November 7, 2012

Contributed by Emma Pyle (Bowdoin, ’12)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1487, 1846, 1921, Collections, Illustrations, Ithaca, New York City, Universities

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