Compositions By John Flaxman, Sculptor, R.A. From The Divine Poem Of Dante Alighieri, Containing Hell, Purgatory And Paradise. With Quotations From The Italian, And Translations From The Version Of The Reverend H. Boyd, To Each Plate.
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C. Gizzi, ed., Flaxman e Dante [exhibition catalogue] (1986).
For Flaxman's influence see the bibliographic note on Compositions From The Tragedies Of Aeschylus Designed By Iohn Flaxman (1795).
On illustrations to Dante see the bibliographic note on La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri (1757).
Summary Note
The plates, captioned in Italian and English, show passages from Dante's Divina Commedia. Between those for 'Purgatory' and 'Paradise' is an unnumbered plate, captioned, 'Faith, Hope and Charity'.
No illustrated edition of Dante had been published between 1596 and 1757 (Zatta's edition, illustrated by pupils of Sebastiano Ricci); and Reynolds's Ugolino, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773, was one of few Dante subjects painted in the late eighteenth century. However, Flaxman draws in a generalised way on his knowledge of early Renaissance painting and Gothic sculpture - as was immediately noted by Schlegel and by Goethe ('a gift of adopting the innocence of the older Italian school'). The extreme simplicity of the style may be exemplified by the drawing of the Hypocrites (Inferno pl.25); which was one of those copied by Goya.
Flaxman's original Dante drawings are preserved at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Italian poetry - 14th century
Drawings - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century - 19th century
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Dante Alighieri
Revd. Henry Boyd, translator
Robert Harding Evans, publisher
Tommaso Piroli, engraver
William Richard Beckford Miller, publisher
John Arch, publisher
Arthur Arch, publisher
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, publisher
John and Arthur Arch, publisher
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