Pilgrims in the Afterlife: Dante and Virgil in a drawing by Bartolomeo Passerotti in the Louvre

Authors

  • Angela Ghirardi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-7251/13164

Keywords:

Bartolomeo Passerotti, Drawing, Iconography, Dante, Virgil

Abstract

The drawing inv. 8471 by Bartolomeo Passerotti in the Louvre is studied from iconographic point of view: we argue to identify, in the two figures, the great poets Dante and Virgil traveling through Hell. Furthermore, for the drawing, inspired by the Divine Comedy, we propose a chronology around 1575, based on stylistic comparison, and we hypothesize as probable its original Florentine destination.

INTRECCI d'arte - 10, 2021, cover image: Biagio Pupini, Adorazione dei Magi, Washington, National Gallery of Art

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Published

2021-08-02

How to Cite

Ghirardi, A. . (2021). Pilgrims in the Afterlife: Dante and Virgil in a drawing by Bartolomeo Passerotti in the Louvre. INTRECCI d’arte, 10(10), 51–59. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-7251/13164

Issue

No. 10 (2021)

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Copyright (c) 2021 Angela Ghirardi

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