A wonderful hell. Iconography and writing of the Divine Comedy “
As part of the Dante celebrations, on Monday 18 October at the Embassy of Italy, the exhibition “1321-1921-2021: An admirable hell. Iconography and writing of the Divine Comedy ”. The exhibition will be open to guided tours until December 15 ([email protected]). The collection ranges from fourteenth-century manuscripts to contemporary Graphic Novel. The exhibition, curated by Maria Giovanna Fadiga in agreement with the cultural institutes, crowns a series of conferences, readings, screenings and exhibitions that the organizing committee, from the Secretariat for Culture of San Marino, with the support of the Dante Alighieri Association, has realized during the whole year of the eighteenth century.
– The sixteen panels of Hell by the painter Amos Nattini are the originals preserved in the Library of the Farnesina, donated in 1927 to Dino Grandi, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs as part of the project for the monumental edition of the Divine Comedy. The work, an example of the best iconography of the last century, was completed only in 1939 and enjoyed great success both nationally and internationally. – The illuminated Dante manuscripts on display are thirteen copies of the approximately thirty manuscripts existing in the world, and edited in facsimile version by prestigious Italian publishing houses in the sector.
– The picture is completed by the contemporary work of the New York artist George Cochrane, with his graphic novel style version of the Divine Comedy published in San Marino, a modern combination of writing and images.
– In parallel, at the State Library in Palazzo Valloni, the parchment fragments of the Divine Comedy found in the bindings of the notarial collections of the Fossato di Vico Archive (PG) will be exhibited until 6 November. Dated to the mid-fourteenth century, they testify to the spread of Dante’s work along the Marche-Romagna area and recall the most famous and precious fragments now on display at the Museum of San Francesco in the Foco mettesti exhibition, called “Chiose Ambrosane ”Allowing a visual and historical parallel of extreme interest. The loan was made possible by Giovanna Giubbini, Director of the Archival and Bibliographic Superintendence of Umbria.
– The restoration of the illustrations and the intervention for the recovery of the Fragments were carried out by the Central Institute of Pathology of Archives and Books (ICPAL) directed by the Director General of the Ministry of Culture Mario Turetta, thanks to the Agreement concluded with the Ministry of Affairs Foreign for the care of the archival and book heritage.
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