Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment
Barnes, Bernadine
The Art Bulletin; Mar (1995)77, 1
Abstract
In the lower right corner of the Last Judgement, Michelangelo painted an unmistakeable quotation from Dante’s Inferno (figs. 1, 2). The figures of Charon and Minos were easily recognized by sixteenth-century viewers, and to the present day no one has seriously questioned the reference, although occasionally additional meanings have been pointed out. It is not my purpose to overturn this rare bit of consensus, nor is it my purpose to contradict many sources that tell us how well Michelangelo knew Dante’s writings.
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Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment
Barnes, Bernadine
The Art Bulletin; Mar (1995)77, 1
Abstract
In the lower right corner of the Last Judgement, Michelangelo painted an unmistakeable quotation from Dante’s Inferno (figs. 1, 2). The figures of Charon and Minos were easily recognized by sixteenth-century viewers, and to the present day no one has seriously questioned the reference, although occasionally additional meanings have been pointed out. It is not my purpose to overturn this rare bit of consensus, nor is it my purpose to contradict many sources that tell us how well Michelangelo knew Dante’s writings.
Click here to read this article from The Art Bulletin
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