Smiling Walls

Dante e le arte figurative / Dante and the Visual Arts

Edited by Rossend Arques Edited by Laura Pasquini Edited by Silvia Maddalo

Book cover: Smiling Walls

Extent: 544 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Art & Art History, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2023)

ISBN: 9782503594507

Price: $238.00

In stock

This miscellaneous volume studies Dante’s artistic reception in the field of mural painting between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book also contains contributions with a focus on the artistic experience of Dante e.g. the relationship with Giotto, the contemplation of the mosaics of the Battistero di San Giovanni of Flor


This book addresses the artistic reception of the Comedy in mural painting from the ‘300 to the ‘500, created by some of the greatest fresco painters of these centuries, for the first time in its articulated and composite totality. Well-known specialists participate in each of the epochs and in each of the artists studied, analyzing in particular the different moments in which the painters of the 14th and 15th centuries have placed the figuration of the afterlife and of the universal judgment in the light of the Dante experience.

  • Edited by Rossend Arques
  • Edited by Laura Pasquini
  • Edited by Silvia Maddalo