Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
Jean-Jacques Feuchère, a French artist (1807-1852), depicted an image of Dante meditating on his literary work, the Divine Comedy (1843). This work is made with “pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper.” — “Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy” (1843), National Gallery of Art
Summoning Curses is a collaborative album between bands Suðri and Atel. The cover art of this album features Gustave Doré’s illustration, Ugolino and Gaddo. This illustration is Doré’s imaging of canto 33 from the Inferno.
Find the album here.
Find the illustration here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa.
Beyond All Temples and Myths is a 1999 album by the heavy metal band, Winds of Sirius. The album art is an altered version of the 1961 Gustave Doré painting, Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Many of the song titles are biblical references as well, including; “The Light Beyond,” “Wise Men Keep Silent,” and “Everlasting Souls.”
Buy the album here.
Read more about the painting here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa.
“The original album from these Swiss doomsters was only released on vinyl last year and reviewed by our resident ultimaniac Scott Waters. Roxx Productions decided to make this rare piece more available to the headbanging public by reissuing it in two new formats. The single-disc version has the seven original songs and adds the bonus tracks ‘Golden Voice’ and ‘Lines.’
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“The lyrical content is strictly biblical, and when singer Matt Brand kicks into his gravel-tongued mode, there’s heaviness aplenty, especially on the tune ‘The Stream of Forgetfulness.’ Pylon’s cover of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’ disassembles the original with its slow delivery. I can appreciate the doom metal more than the stoner rock here, but all in all, I’m glad the light of day has shone on this band – surely we will hear more from Pylon.” –Chris Gatto, HM Magazine
This album art uses Gustave Doré’s 1861 painting titled, Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Listen to the album here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa.
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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.
