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Dante's Divine Comedy to float among stars

ROME: Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven - again.Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The allegory representing a soul’s journey to God is one of the world’s most influential works of literature.Now, a copy of the entire Divine Comedy, micro-inscribed on sheets of a. ....

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A monumental book reveals a monumental work of art


Photograph © Vatican Museum
On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, interspersed amid Michelangelo’s famous frescoes God’s fingertip reaching out toward Adam’s, the sun and planets coming into creation, Adam and Eve banished from Eden is a series of 10 bronze-painted medallions depicting scenes from the Old Testament. Relatively monochromatic and overwhelmed by the bright figures that surround them, these smaller paintings are easy to miss, especially for tourists looking up from the floor roughly four stories below, crowded shoulder to shoulder and shuffled steadily toward the exit by Vatican Museums docents. “From that distance, it looks like a dot in the ceiling,” says photographer and publisher Nicholas Callaway ’75, “but these are fabulous ....

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