Visions of Dante: Exhibition Preview and Discussion
Time: March 30, 2021, noon - 1 p.m.
Location: virtual
Sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor
Laurent Ferri (Cornell University)
Andrew Weislogel (Cornell University)
Natale Vacalebre (University of Pennsylvania)
Visions of Dante, an upcoming exhibition at Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art (fall 2021 dates to be announced), will mark the 700th anniversary of the Italian poet’s death.
At this virtual presentation, exhibition co-curators Ferri and Weislogel preview selected books and artworks from Cornell collections exploring the visual nature of Dante’s Divine Comedy and its reception. Vacalebre, a Dante scholar, discusses Cornell’s copy of the 1472 Foligno edition, the first printed Divine Comedy, uniquely annotated with commentary and marginal drawings.
Contact Andrew Weislogel for more information.
This program, cosponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor and organized by the Visualizing Dante (VAC31) working group, will be presented live via Zoom from Cornell’s Carl A. Kroch Library.
Andrew Weislogel, Cornall University - Johnson Museum of Art