Influence of Dante on the Iconographic Concept of the Last Judgement

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10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.122How to use a DOI?

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Iconography; Last Judgement; purgatory; Divine Comedy; Dante; frescoes; Giotto; Nardo di Cione; Fra Angelico; Michelangelo; Rafael; Francis of Assisi

Abstract

The article is investigating the history of appearance of purgatory in the iconographic model of the Last Judgment. Until the 18th century, representations of the after-life exclusively included hell and heaven, and there was no purgatory. Starting from the second half of the 14th century, once the Divine Comedy of Dante was published, certain elements of purgatory started to appear, in particular, on frescoes of Nardo di Cione in the Florence Basilica of Santa Maria Novella. Some Last Judgement representations, dated back to the middle of the 15th century, began to suggest a certain structural accentuation of purgatory. The article analyses the influence of Dante's Divine Comedy on the after-life iconography and offers conclusions about its special contribution into the development of iconographic concept of the Last Judgement.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication (ICELAIC 2017)
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