Inferno - The Art Collection
About this ebook
Do You Love Horror Books? "Inferno" Images will Scare You Death.
"Inferno - The Art Collection" by Dino Di Durante is a full color book of a 72-piece art collection based on Dante's Inferno story, the first part of the literary masterpiece - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the second greatest Christian story after The Gospel. This is a completely new, deep and fascinating vision of Inferno by Dino Di Durante, who has studied this masterpiece in its original Italian for over 30 years. This book is the best choice as a companion and a visual reference to any Inferno book every written.
The canvases versions of the art published in this book sell between $5,000 and $30,000, so this book is a bargain no matter how you look at it.
Most of the art pieces were featured in a film titled Dante's Hell Animated (DVD available on Amazon.com) featuring Eric Roberts' voice as Dante. The Italian version, titled Inferno Dantesco Animato, featuring Vittorio Gassman's voice as Dante. Both versions premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The entire collection is featured in the upcoming film "Inferno by Dante" starring over 30 artists and scholars from both the United States and Italy, in addition to a Monsignor from The Vatican. This film will be released in 2015.
Ratings and reviews
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"The Divine Comedy is one of the most "visual" poems in the history of Literature, and from its first appearance in manuscripts and codices the text was often accompanied by miniatures illustrating its most famous episodes. Dino Di Durante is the last of a long and illustrious list of artists who have illustrated Dante's poem. His paintings are not just illustrations of characters and/or episodes, but such is their power that they become actual visual interpretations of the text itself."
Massimo Ciavolella, Ph.D., Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Director at UCLA - USA
"Dino Di Durante's paintings of Dante's Inferno are strong, sometimes terrifying, sometimes sublime, but they all perfectly describe the beauty and depth of the human soul, the wonderful mirror of God's image."
Monsignor Marco Frisina, Divine Comedy expert - The Vatican
"... Fueled by his wonder at the genius of the immortal Dante, Dino has put heart and soul into re-imagining Dante's Inferno for modern audiences, especially young people who have so much to learn from its sublime wisdom. They will also find much to enjoy, a feast of visual delights and mind-blowing experiences that put the latest computer games and special effects movies to shame."
Christopher Vogler, Hollywood Story Advisor and author of The Writer's Journey"
"The 72 paintings that make up the art collection of "Dante's Inferno" by Dino Di Durante are not only the depiction of a great literary masterpiece, but also an invitation to experience them. He gives life to a series of images, that does not just tell the remarkable Dante's journey, but also invites you to relive, with restlessness and amazement, all his emotions almost to the last detail."
Gianmario Pagano, Priest, screenwriter and Divine Comedy play writer - Italy
"Dino Di Durante has devoted his professional and artistic life to making Dante's Commedia available to wider and now, even younger audiences. He believes in the power and relevance of Dante's masterpiece; giving it further animation through artistic images is a further public service to the collective imagination that needs rich stories like this to understand themselves in a complex world."
Dennis Slattery, Ph.D., Mythological Studies at Pacifica Institute, California - USA
