Matthew Collins

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante's poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations.

Developing a series of interdisciplinary methods for studying early printed book illustrations, Matthew Collins explores the visual sources for the first illustrated editions of the Commedia, their narrative qualities, and their influence on Renaissance readers. He traces the visual genealogies that link these images to each other and to renderings of the poem in other media, including illuminated manuscripts and drawings, such as those by Sandro Botticelli. Collins additionally delves into a group of cartographically oriented renderings of Dante's afterlife, interpreting them in the context of the Age of Exploration. He addresses the utilitarian aspect of the illustrations as well: What was their common function? His answer unravels the multidimensional role that these images served for Renaissance readers, emphasizing their pedagogical and mnemonic uses.

Of value to numerous disciplines, The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" fills a gap in Dante studies and will inspire similar investigations into the visual representation of other literary works in the age of early print.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268208394
• Artikelnr.: 72253407

Autorenporträt

Matthew Collins holds a PhD from Harvard University in Romance languages and literatures, a JD from NYU Law, and an MA in the history of art and architecture from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. He is the founding series editor of Reading Dante with Images.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Images and Genealogies at the Margins of Renaissance Cultural
Historiography
1. From Manuscript to Print: Broken Links and Bigger Pictures
2. From Print to Manuscript: Ideology and Pedagogy in the Hands of Copyists
3. From Drawing to Print (1): The Botticelli Questions
4. From Drawing to Print (2): The Forgotten Morgan Dante Drawings
5. Dante in the Age of Exploration: Meetings of Fact, Fiction, and
Cartography
6. Approaches to Visual Narrative: A Taxonomy
7. Early Readership, Marginalia, and Mnemonics
Conclusion: The Work of Book Art in the Age of Early Print