Opening Saturday to coincide with Nuit Blanche, the installation takes its inspiration from the commedia dell’arte porcelain figurines in the Gardiner’s permanent collection

Michelangelo Cactani, La Materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri, 1855 Le locus terrenus Dans la de Dante (1265-1321), l'âme part des enfers, qu'on voit comme un cône enfoncé dans la terre, pour s'élever, en passant par le mont de la purification et les neuf échelons des planètes, par les étoiles fixes et les sphères cristallines mues par les anges, jusqu'au paradis où elle trouve un havre de lumière divine au sein de la blanche rose céleste. (Alchimie & Mystique, Le Musée hermétique, tashcen)

commedia dell'arte par les grands peintresFrank Xavier Leyendecker (1876-1924)arlequin et colombine Frank Xavier Leyendecker (1876-1924) arlequin et colombine Frank Xavier Leyendecker (1876-1924) arlequin et colombine

Reflection Garden at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art University of Oregon The evolution of decorative and garden sculpture in ancient Greece. The most radical transformation of sculptural art for mainstream decoration occurred in ancient Greece. The earliest incarnation of Greek sculpture was in the form of wooden cult statues, where they were used as objects of veneration. The first piece of Greek statuary to be reassembled was the Lefkandi Centaur, a terra cotta sculpture found on the island of Euboea, dated c. 920 BCE. It is the earliest known depiction of myth in the history of Greek sculpture. The artistic

Cacciaguida, accogliendo richiesta di Dante, ne preannuncia esilio da Firenze e rifugio a Verona, dove incontrerà Cangrande Della Scala.

Una riflessione sulla raffigurazione del dolore nell'arte nel periodo che va dal medioevo all'Ottocento.

Nel VIII Cerchio, i due poeti giungono nella Bolgia, la settima, destinata ai ladri, tra cui Vanni Fucci, dal quale Dante riceve predizioni d'amari eventi.

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