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Inferno - The Art Collection
by Dino Di Durante
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SPECTACULAR AND MIND BLOWING IMAGES OF HELL USED IN TWO ACCLAIMED FILMS!
Do You Love Horror Books? "Inferno" Images will Scare You Death.
"Inferno - The Art Collection" by Dino Di Durante is a full color book of a 72-piece art collection based on Dante's Inferno story, the first part of the literary masterpiece - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the second greatest Christian story after The Gospel. This is a completely new, deep and fascinating vision of Inferno by Dino Di Durante, who has studied this masterpiece in its original Italian for over 30 years. This book is the best choice as a companion and a visual reference to any Inferno book every written.
The canvases versions of the art published in this book sell between $5,000 and $30,000, so this book is a bargain no matter how you look at it.
Most of the art pieces were featured in a film titled Dante's Hell Animated (DVD available on Amazon.com) featuring Eric Roberts' voice as Dante. The Italian version, titled Inferno Dantesco Animato, featuring Vittorio Gassman's voice as Dante. Both versions premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Gotimna Publications, LLC is an AmeriWorlcan publishing company proud to exclusively offer books based on Dante Alighieri's masterpidafaffaece, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise.
"Inferno - The Art Collection" by Dino Di Durante is a book depicting a 72-piece art collection based on Dante's Inferno, the first part of The Divine Comedy. This collection took over 7 years to complete and it is now printed in full color on 8.5"x11" books in several languages, 70 are in the process of being produced.
We have a large collection of books by different authors never published before. Nevertheless, all are outstanding and will be big sellers, particularly among students.
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"The Divine Comedy is one of the most "visual" poems in the history of Literature, and from its first appearance in manuscripts and codices the text was often accompanied by miniatures illustrating its most famous episodes. Dino Di Durante is the last of a long and illustrious list of artists who have illustrated Dante's poem. His paintings are not just illustrations of characters and/or episodes, but such is their power that they become actual visual interpretations of the text itself."
Massimo Ciavolella, Ph.D., Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Director at UCLA - USA
"Dino Di Durante's paintings of Dante's Inferno are strong, sometimes terrifying, sometimes sublime, but they all perfectly describe the beauty and depth of the human soul, the wonderful mirror of God's image."
Monsignor Marco Frisina, Divine Comedy expert - The Vatican
"... Fueled by his wonder at the genius of the immortal Dante, Dino has put heart and soul into re-imagining Dante's Inferno for modern audiences, especially young people who have so much to learn from its sublime wisdom. They will also find much to enjoy, a feast of visual delights and mind-blowing experiences that put the latest computer games and special effects movies to shame."
Christopher Vogler, Hollywood Story Advisor and author of The Writer's Journey"
"The 72 paintings that make up the art collection of "Dante's Inferno" by Dino Di Durante are not only the depiction of a great literary masterpiece, but also an invitation to experience them. He gives life to a series of images, that does not just tell the remarkable Dante's journey, but also invites you to relive, with restlessness and amazement, all his emotions almost to the last detail."
Gianmario Pagano, Priest, screenwriter and Divine Comedy play writer - Italy
"Dino Di Durante has devoted his professional and artistic life to making Dante's Commedia available to wider and now, even younger audiences. He believes in the power and relevance of Dante's masterpiece; giving it further animation through artistic images is a further public service to the collective imagination that needs rich stories like this to understand themselves in a complex world."
Dennis Slattery, Ph.D., Mythological Studies at Pacifica Institute, California - USA
Author Biography
I was six when I started painting with watercolors but very soon switched to tempera because I liked the control this type of paint provides. I painted Disney characters on wood because I could get it for free. After a few years, I stopped painting and got into music, photography, and so on. After college I picked up the brush again, this time using acrylic paint on canvas, and changed to free style painting, also known as abstract painting.
Dante's Inferno and The Divine Comedy was a book my family often spoke about and discussed. I waited until I had a chance to "study" it in College when I was at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an engineering student. I ended up majoring in science with a minor degree in Italian literature. However, when I first arrived at UCLA, I didn't take any engineering classes. Instead I went straight to fulfill the general requirements by enrolling to study Dante's Inferno and The Divine Comedy, and later the complete works of Dante Alighieri. This was the most gratifying experience in College. The Divine Comedy changed my life in many ways. I was completely enthralled as I was taken through the afterlife by Dante's hand. However, I had a very hard time visualizing the story and when I used Gustave Dore's illustrations to follow my Dante's Inferno reading, it was confusing at times. I could not find anything else at the library at the time and the Internet did not yet exist.
Many years later, I started developing a graphic magazine series about Dante's Inferno. During this process I had the opportunity to work on a film based on the same subject, titled Inferno by Dante. After I did some research, I realized that there was not enough visual art in public domain to make the film properly. I decided to change course, stopped the magazine series, and started a new journey into Hell, circle by circle from the beginning (The Dark Forest) to the end (The Stars of Purgatory).
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- Publisher Gotimna Publications
- Publication Date September 2014
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781628790023 / 1628790024
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 39.99 USD
- Pages84
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleInferno - The Art Collection
- Original Language AuthorsEnglish
- Copyright Year2014
- Page size8.5x11 inches (8.5x11) inches
- Illustrationfull color
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