Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light

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Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art, has just had a new book published by Lund Humphries.

Titled Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light and published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, this major new study is the first book to consider the impact of Dante’s vision of divine light on visual artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

It combines a close reading of Dante’s poetry with an analysis of early optics and is lavishly illustrated with masterworks by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesco, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Bernini and others.