Life and Afterlife in Italian Renaissance Art
Taking Dante as a traveling companion, we will see how life and afterlife were conceived and represented in the art of the part. Formerly offered as Art 298.
4 credit hours
Véronique Plesch (vbplesch@colby.edu) 859-5634 Bixler 165

Links to powerpoint presentations
1: Afterlife’s Topography
2: Florence in Dante’s Time
Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
Italian Art in the Twelth, Thirteenth, and early Fourteenth Centuries
Giotto's Arena Chapel
Judas
Last Judgment
Duccio
Purgatory
Angels and Paradise
St. Francis
St. Dominic
Devotional Art
Mysticism
Trinity and the Beatific Vision