The Darkness That Is Light. Thoughts from an exhibition

The Dante exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, for the 700th
anniversary year of 2021, brought together some of the Divine
Comedy’s greatest illustrators, living and dead, from Monika
Beisner to William Blake and Sandro Botticelli. Here are my
reflections on these studies in line and light depicting darkness
and life.

Modern works discussed include those by Monika Beisner, Dante and
Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise (2001) and Dante and Beatrice
and the Mystic Rose of Paradise (2001); Rachel Owen, The
Fraudsters (2010-16); and Geoff MacEwan, The Earthly Paradise
(2010). 

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