Cecco Bonanotte

La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)

Micol Forti, Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani, Antonio Paolucci , Marzia Faietti

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Skira
27 June 2024

Drawing & drawings; Other graphic art forms

The Inferno of The Divine Comedy illustrated by the plates by the contemporary artist.

The volume presents the full text of the Inferno of The Divine Comedy beautifully illustrated by Cecco Bonanotte's plates, created in a sophisticated mixed technique that simultaneously exploits the tools of printing and those of drawing.

The extraordinary illustrations that accompany Dante's trip through Hell are awash with compositional and spatial solutions in which the artist prioritizes the sense of verticality evinced by means of an accelerated movement towards the abysses and the depths of the earth. The skilful, virtuous use of pencil, graphite and charcoal and the rare blood-red accents underpin an incisive, lacerated, nervous sign-based language.

The exceptionally high quality of the drawing through which Bonanotte achieves the darkest, deepest blacks and the blinding transparencies of a dayless light is associated with a potent vision of the space - a vision lacerated by force lines, beams of light and incision-like marks, which break up the whole and recompose it in a new order.

Text by: Antonio Paolucci, Marzia Faietti
Edited by: Micol Forti, Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani
Imprint: Skira
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9788857249162
ISBN 10: 8857249166
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Micol Forti has been Director of the Contemporary Art Collection of the Vatican Museums since 2000. Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani, art historian and museologist, has been Director of Uffizi.