Flaxman's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

John Flaxman

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780486455587
• eBook ISBN: 9780486157009
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs

Since its creation at the beginning of the fourteenth century, Dante's Divine Comedy—a masterpiece of European literature—has moved legendary artists such as William Blake and Gustave Doré to illustrate the famed poem. John Flaxman, English sculptor, draughtsman, and renowned Wedgwood designer, was no exception. Commissioned at the end of the eighteenth century by famed art collector and author Thomas Hope, Flaxman's 110 illustrations of the Divine Comedy are known as his greatest achievement. Deceptively simple, awash in pathos, and recalling antique imagery in a classically Greek style, they themselves became an inspiration for such artists as Goya and Ingres, and were used as an academic source for nineteenth-century art students.
This magnificent edition of Flaxman's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy includes the complete series of drawings created by Flaxman for all 99 cantos of the literary masterwork. A glorious collection of lively outlines that captures the very spirit of Dante's poem, it is an essential addition to the bookshelves of art, literature, and history enthusiasts. Captions are included from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of the original text.

Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Entering the Dark Wood
Virgil and Beatrice Meeting
Charon’s Boat
Christ’s Descent to Limbo
The Lovers Surprised
The Lovers Punished
Cerberus
The Region of Pluto
The Pool of Envy
The Furies
The Fiery Sepulchres
Tomb of Anastasius
Encounter with the Centaurs
Forest of Harpies
The Statue of Four Metals
Dante Discoursing with his Preceptor
The Rain of Fire
Geryon
Malebolge
The Gulf of Simony
Tiresias
Summit of Malebolge
The Bridge
The Lake of Pitch
Hypocrites
The Fiery Serpents
Cacus
The Flaming Gulph
The Contention for Guido de Montefeltro
The Schismatics
The Vale of Disease
Impostors
The Giants
The Frozen Lake
Count Ugolino Seized
The Death of Ugolino
Dis, or Lucifer
The Reascent
The Mountain of Probation
Humiliation
The Bark of Purgatory
The Benediction
Casella’s Song
The Vestibule of Purgatory
The Negligent
The Deliverance of Buonaconti
The Meeting with Sordello
Limbo
The Valley
Dante’s Dream
Gate of Purgatory
The Salutation
The Pro...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Entering the Dark Wood
• Virgil and Beatrice Meeting
• Charon’s Boat
• Christ’s Descent to Limbo
• The Lovers Surprised
• The Lovers Punished
• Cerberus
• The Region of Pluto
• The Pool of Envy
• The Furies
• The Fiery Sepulchres
• Tomb of Anastasius
• Encounter with the Centaurs
• Forest of Harpies
• The Statue of Four Metals
• Dante Discoursing with his Preceptor
• The Rain of Fire
• Geryon
• Malebolge
• The Gulf of Simony
• Tiresias
• Summit of Malebolge
• The Bridge
• The Lake of Pitch
• Hypocrites
• The Fiery Serpents
• Cacus
• The Flaming Gulph
• The Contention for Guido de Montefeltro
• The Schismatics
• The Vale of Disease
• Impostors
• The Giants
• The Frozen Lake
• Count Ugolino Seized
• The Death of Ugolino
• Dis, or Lucifer
• The Reascent
• The Mountain of Probation
• Humiliation
• The Bark of Purgatory
• The Benediction
• Casella’s Song
• The Vestibule of Purgatory
• The Negligent
• The Deliverance of Buonaconti
• The Meeting with Sordello
• Limbo
• The Valley
• Dante’s Dream
• Gate of Purgatory
• The Salutation
• The Proud
• Lucifer
• Purification from Envy
• A Conversation with Guido di Brettinoro
• Conducted by an Angel
• The Region of Smoke
• The Choir
• The Region of Selfishness
• Region of Avarice
• The Earthquake
• The Meeting with Statius
• Region of Intemperance
• Forese’s Elevation
• The Intemperate
• The Carnal
• The Fiery Doom
• The Poets Reposing
• Matilda
• The Procession of Elders
• The Descent of Beatrice
• The Mysterious Car
• The River Lethe
• The Intrigues of the Church
• The River Eunoë
• Ascent to the First Heaven
• The Lunar Sphere
• Inhabitants of the Moon
• Souls Returning to their Spheres
• The Planet Mercury
• The Active Good
• Beatrice and Dante
• The Planet Venus
• The Return of Cunissa
• The Sun
• The Church
• The Region of the Sun
• The Adoration of the Trinity
• The Glorious Cross
• The Birth of Cacciaguida
• The Infant Saviour
• Dante Discoursing with Cacciaguida
• The Planet Jupiter
• The Celestial Eagle
• Heavenly Splendours
• The Celestial Steps
• The Terrors of Guilt
• The Triumph of Christ
• St. Peter
• The Church Militant
• Conference with St. John
• The Ninth Sphere
• The Empyreum
• The Hierarchies
• Celestial Meteors
• The Virgin Mary
• Order of the Patriarchs
• The Beatific Vision
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