On the first day of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death
, the
Divine Comedy "lives on" on the web
.
Starting from January 1st
, all the drawings illustrating the Poem
, made at the end of the sixteenth century by the painter Federico
Zuccari
, famous for having frescoed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
, are
visible online for the first time on the Uffizi website
.
The Uffizi Galleries, which house the entire group of these 'Dante' sheets (there are 88 in all), open the celebrations by publishing on their website (www.uffizi.it) the virtual exhibition "A riveder le stelle", with a didactic apparatus written by Donatella Fratini, curator of the drawings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century of the Uffizi. So all the illustrations of the Commedia dello Zuccari have been digitized in high definition and organized in a journey in stages that allows you to admire them for the first time in their entirety and in every detail. The 88 drawings, executed by the painter at the end of the sixteenth century, constitute the most impressive illustrative group of the Comedy created before the nineteenth century. Created between 1586 and 1588, during Zuccari's stay in Spain, the entire collection entered the Uffizi collection in 1738, thanks to the donation of Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici, Elettrice Palatina. "So far these beautiful drawings have been seen by few scholars and exposed to the public only twice and only in part - comments the director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt - now they are published in full and with a didactic-scientific comment on the Uffizi website, where from now on they will be freely available. It is a real pride for the Galleries to open the eighteenth century from the death of the great poet by making this extraordinary collection of graphic art available to all. Precious material not only for those who do research but also for those who are passionate of Dante's work, is interested in going into it to follow, as Alighieri says, virtue and knowledge ".