Imagination Ablaze William Blake's spectacular illustrations for "The Divine Comedy" Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul's path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante's masterwork, from pencil sketches to finished watercolors. Like Dante's sweeping poem, Blake's drawings range from scenes of infernal suffering to celestial light, from horrifying human disfigurement to the perfection of physical form. While faithful to the text, Blake also brought his own perspective to some of Dante's central themes. Today, Blake's illustrations, left in various stages of completion at the time of his death, are dispersed among seven different institutions. This TASCHEN edition brings these works together again, alongside key excerpts from Dante's masterpiece. Two introductory essays consider Dante and Blake, as well as other major artists who have been inspired by The Divine Comedy, including Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Dore, and Auguste Rodin. With a close reading of Blake's illustrations, and many close-ups to allow the most delicate of details to dazzle, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, punishment, revenge, and redemption.
Sebastian Schütze was a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and a member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen s University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed professor of early modern art history at Vienna University.
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这本书的叙事节奏是极其沉稳且克制的,像是一部精心打磨的纪录片,而不是一部激动人心的评论。作者的语调始终保持着一种学者的冷静与敬畏,他似乎在小心翼翼地剥开每一层历史的尘埃,生怕弄坏了里面的精美结构。他对于但丁在政治流亡中所承受的心理重压的分析,尤其细腻,将《神曲》解读为一份极其个人化的、充满怨恨与救赎欲望的“自传性宣言”,而非仅仅是宗教寓言。这种对作者个体命运的深挖,使得那些宏大的神学概念都染上了人间的烟火气和痛苦感。书中对于中世纪法律体系和教会权力斗争的背景铺陈,详尽到令人发指,虽然有时会让人觉得有点像历史教科书的片段插入,但无疑为理解但丁对审判的执着提供了坚实的基础。对于那些对历史背景有强烈需求的读者来说,这是一本极佳的参考书,它拒绝浮夸的阐释,只提供坚实的证据链。
评分这本关于但丁《神曲》的解读,从一个全新的角度切入,让人耳目一新。作者似乎对文本的每一个细节都有着近乎偏执的关注,特别是对那些在传统解读中常被忽略的次要人物和象征符号的挖掘,简直称得上是考古级别的细致。我花了很长时间才消化完其中关于“地狱第八圈”中那些复杂隐喻的论述,简直像是在跟随一位经验丰富的向导,深入但丁笔下那座错综复杂的精神迷宫。他没有停留在表层的道德说教,而是深入到中世纪晚期佛罗伦萨的政治生态和哲学思潮中,去探究但丁创作时的真实意图。这种跨学科的整合能力,让人不禁惊叹。特别是他将炼金术的某些阶段理论与但丁的七宗罪结构进行对比分析时,那种洞察力,简直是石破天惊。读完之后,我感觉自己对原著的理解被彻底重塑了,那些曾经晦涩难懂的篇章,如今都像是被点亮了。唯一的遗憾是,某些章节的论证链条稍显冗长,需要读者具备极高的专注度才能跟上作者跳跃的思维火花。但总的来说,对于任何希望深入探究《神曲》内在结构的严肃读者来说,这本书都是一份不可多得的财富。
评分我必须指出,这本书的哲学深度是惊人的,但其表达方式却常常显得晦涩难懂,充满了德语哲学对意大利语文学的“强行嫁接”。作者似乎热衷于引入后结构主义的理论工具来解构但丁的线性叙事,试图证明《神曲》内部存在着无数的“断裂点”和“不可译性”。这种解读路径虽然极具学术前沿性,却牺牲了叙事的亲和力。很多章节需要反复阅读才能把握其核心论点,比如他关于“时间性”在《炼狱篇》中如何被打破和重塑的讨论,就异常烧脑。他似乎在暗示,但丁的作品并非是对既定秩序的确认,而是一场关于语言和经验边界的持续挑战。这本书更适合那些已经将《神曲》视为经典文本,并渴望看到对其进行颠覆性、批判性解读的资深研究者。它不会给你提供安慰性的答案,而是会给你带来更多关于“意义生成”的深刻困惑,让你在合上书本后,依然久久不能平静。
评分我得承认,这本书的阅读体验是相当“激进”的。它与其说是一本导读手册,不如说是一场作者与读者之间、关于形而上学和视觉艺术的激烈辩论。作者的行文风格充满了古典的激情与现代的解构主义的混合体,句子长短不一,充满着大量的修辞反问和突兀的插入语,仿佛他正在对着一个满座的听众即兴演讲,情绪的起伏极大地影响了阅读的流畅性。他对于“天堂”部分的光明与秩序的描述,那种近乎宗教狂热的赞美,与他对路西法的描绘时所展现出的冷酷、精确的结构分析,形成了强烈的张力。我特别欣赏他如何将早期的哥特式建筑的垂直感,引入到对天国层级的空间划分上,这种将建筑学与神学并置的思路,为理解“至高之爱”的不可言说性提供了一个极佳的具象化框架。不过,对于初次接触《神曲》的读者来说,这本书的门槛无疑是相当高的,它要求读者不仅要熟悉文本,还要对中世纪的宇宙观有着基本的预设,否则很容易在那些密集的术语和引文中迷失方向,感觉自己像是在听一场高深的学术研讨会。
评分这本书最让我感到震撼的地方,在于它对“视觉性”的极致强调。作者似乎坚信但丁的《神曲》本质上是一部“可以被观看的史诗”。他没有过多地沉溺于复杂的拉丁文词源考据,而是将大量的篇幅放在了对文本中描绘的场景进行“重绘”上。例如,他对地狱河流湍急程度和硫磺烟雾弥漫程度的描述,被他细致入微地拆解成不同的光学现象,并联系到文艺复兴早期画家们是如何处理光线和阴影的技法的。这种将文学作品还原为一幅幅动态画卷的尝试,极大地增强了阅读的现场感。我仿佛真的能闻到地狱深处的腐臭,感受到天堂之光灼痛眼睛的那种体验。这种感官层面的调动,是很多纯粹文本分析所不具备的优势。不过,这种过度聚焦于“画面感”有时也使得叙事的内在逻辑略显松散,我感觉自己像是在一个光影魔术表演中穿梭,虽然华丽,但偶尔会忘记了故事本身的情感核心。
评分Blake is a few of the poets and artists who inspired me in the Romantic Age: "the Ancient of Days", "Great Red Dragon", and all his prophetic works. Dante's Divine Comedy truly perpetuates the ambition of Odyssey and Aeneid, and, in doing so, reconciles the work of antiquity and Christianity. The best illustration of epic poem in art history. SY
评分Blake is a few of the poets and artists who inspired me in the Romantic Age: "the Ancient of Days", "Great Red Dragon", and all his prophetic works. Dante's Divine Comedy truly perpetuates the ambition of Odyssey and Aeneid, and, in doing so, reconciles the work of antiquity and Christianity. The best illustration of epic poem in art history. SY
评分Blake is a few of the poets and artists who inspired me in the Romantic Age: "the Ancient of Days", "Great Red Dragon", and all his prophetic works. Dante's Divine Comedy truly perpetuates the ambition of Odyssey and Aeneid, and, in doing so, reconciles the work of antiquity and Christianity. The best illustration of epic poem in art history. SY
评分Blake的绘画有一种独特的美感。这些画超越了它们的时代,因为当时是新古典主义,而Blake的画显然不太符合新古典主义推崇的古希腊罗马人像的特征。因此当时并不被接受。但是Blake的画里面有一种非常强的感情。事实上,他是牺牲了形似来换取强烈的感情表达,同时他的绘画又编制了一个奇幻的世界。所以实际上用来表现神曲里面的场景再合适不过了。另外,本书的一个优点是,每一幅画除了引用神曲的原诗外,还有一段相应故事的简单解说。这个对于读懂绘画非常有帮助,因为神曲本身文字晦涩难懂(即使是中译本)。 但丁的神曲之所以意义重大是因为他第一次把古典主义的人物与中世纪传统的基督教的人物揉在了一起写成了一首统一的诗篇。而不久之后的文艺复兴中,很多艺术家都受到了神曲的深刻的影响,并且根据神曲的启发创作了自己的作品。
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