Current Exhibition
L'arte d'alluminar: Illustrations of Dante's Divine
Comedy from the Tri-Colleges
January 20 to May 22, 2009
Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library
The imaginative vision embodied in Dante Alighieri’s
Divine Comedy has inspired pictorial illustration since shortly
after its first recounting in manuscript in the 1300s. This exhibition
features books and prints from the collections of Bryn Mawr, Haverford
and Swarthmore Colleges and, over the course of three installations, presents
illustrations of all 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy. Among the
works on display will be anonymous 15th- and16th-century woodcuts, the
canonical 18th- and 19th-century illustrations of John Flaxman, William
Blake, and Gustave Doré, 20th-century renderings by Franz von Bayros,
Amos Nattini, Salvador Dalí, Leonard Baskin and Tom Phillips, plus
the contemporary graphic novels of Sandow Birk and Gary Panter.
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