Dante in Art

catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by The Friends of the Museum, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon The World of Dante, Festival of the Arts - University of Oregon - 1965 Dante in Manuscripts and Printed Books Dante in Prints and Drawings Dante in Paintings Dante in Sculptures Dante in the Theatre Great men have a way of casting shadows across the span of history, shadows which come inevitably to affect its course. Such was the case with Virgil 170-19 B.C.), notional poet of the Roman Empire. Such was even more the case with that notional poet of proto-Renaissance Italy who chose Virgil for personal guide and mentor: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 A.D.). Paradoxical though it may seem, the rooting of both poets in a particular time and place nurtured such poignant expression of deeply felt experience in sensuous and rhythmically ordered form that their works hove won universality both in significance and in artistic appeal: Virgil with his "Eclogues", his "Georgics", his "Aeneid"; and Dante with his "Vita Nuovo", his "Convivio", his "Divino Commedia" above all in its three canticles, the "Inferno", the "Purgatorio", the "Paradiso", and its hundred cantos...

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Museum of Art, University of Oregon

Catalog of an evhibition sponsored by the Friends of the Museum, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 1965

Baldinger, Wallace S.

Clarke, Mark

Gehring, Jane

Dante in Art