Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum (Fenway Court) owes its distinctive character to the influence of Dante Alighieri. Gardner's interest in the Italian poet originated in a context of late nineteenth-century Boston's enthusiasm for his writing and her personal quest for a meaningful life's work. As a student of Charles Eliot Norton, a member of the Cambridge Dante Society, and a collector of rare editions of The Divine Comedy, Gardner became apprised of issues surrounding literary translation. When she began to study visual images inspired by Dante's poetry and to acquire European masterpieces, she was poised to conceive a variation on this practice. As a visual translation of Paradiso, Fenway Court was not an illustration of a classic text but rather a conversion of a spiritual idea of love and beauty from one art form to another. In creating a museum for public education and enjoyment, Gardner exemplified Dante's moral concept of free will and evoked his poetic vision of heavenly beauty.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
194-217
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
22/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
beauty
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Bernard Berenson
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Charles Eliot Norton
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collection
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Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Dante
اصطلاح موضوعی
Fenway Court
اصطلاح موضوعی
free will
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
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museum
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paradise
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Paradiso
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Religious Studies
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translation
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