The ” Inferno” of Divine Comedy in the European Paintings from the 18th century to the 19th century

• Main Authors: Tsia Yi-Fang, 蔡怡芳
• Other Authors: Kang Hui-An
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54376735806638775043

碩士 === 高雄師範大學 === 美術學系 === 98 === The Divine Comedy was introduced from native of Italy into other European countries and got deep and systematic research in the 18th and 19th century. Large numbers of art works started to emerge in the corresponding period of time. We called the “Divine Comedy Age”. In the meantime, The Divine Comedy was quite popular in Europe, due to medieval revival, was in an exceptional grand occasion. This study focused on the contents of paintings of “Inferno” of Divine Comedy. According to the subject matters of the work, it was divided into three themes that were ‘Paolo and Francesca’, ‘Ugolino’, and ‘Sinisters and beast’. After that, judging by the analysis of representations, the styles of expression were sorted into four classifications which were ‘classical technique passing down’, ‘romantic taste emerging’, ‘the influences of Michelangelo’ and ‘depicting figure of naturalism’. Furthermore, on the basis of the “Inferno” of Divine Comedy -centered art orientation, various art thinking and properties were gathered to go into the painting particularities and classified into four sorts which were ‘the Christian faiths’, ‘aesthetics of death’, ‘anti-hero’, and ‘mysticism’. The paintings of the ” Inferno” of Divine Comedy was confirmed that it not only interpreted formative art from language art , but also demonstrated it surpassed it’s sub-role as illustration. Consequently, with it’s unique and integral aesthetic thinking and art value, the position of literature painting has been established and become one-of –a –kind.