George sent me a book called Dante and the Early Astronomer. It was published in 2019 and written by Tracy Daugherty, an English professor at Oregon State University. The book is about a woman named Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed. She, herself, wrote a book called Dante and the Early Astronomers. That 's' is important to [...]
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Pictures today!
For some reason this post disappeared once already... Anyway I was reading something about Dante and there were beautiful pictures of manuscripts of the Divine Comedy from the 1300s. I never thought about what they would have looked like. This one probably is a little fancier than most. Don Simone Camaldolese 1300's Public domain. Next [...]
Dante: Art from Paradiso.
Nora Hamerman, the friend who took me to the National Gallery last week, did a lecture series on Dante in Paradise last year. I completely missed it. (To be honest, I was just getting started on Dante and was intimidated.) It has PICTURES. And quotes. Gorgeous pictures. Gorgeous quotes. You can look at her slide [...]
Dante at the National Gallery, plus a gorgeous church picture, April 2023
I went to the National Gallery of Art with a friend yesterday. There is an exhibition of the National Gallery's own holdings with portrayals of Inferno.** It included the Auguste Rodin sculpture known currently as The Thinker. This sculpture of a seated man was originally supposed to decorate an entire piece known as the Gates [...]
Some eye candy for all those names!
[:de:User:Caro1409|Caro1409 Public domain but above is uploader. Gertrude and Andrew II of Hungary in a psalter. A. Savin, Wikimedia Commons Front door of Saint Elizabeth's Church. St Elizabeth of Thuringia (aka Elizabeth of Hungary) Church in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. Very Gothic but made of brick not stone. https://www.saintsfeastfamily.com/copy-of-st-kinga-of-poland-july-24-2 Saint Kinga of Poland. Bela IV's oldest [...]
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