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Dante's "Afterlife" in William Dyce's Paintings

abstract: This Master's thesis locates four works by William Dyce inspired by Dante Alighieri's Commedia: Francesca da Rimini (1837), Design for the Reverse of the Turner Medal (1858), Beatrice (1859), and Dante and Beatrice (date unknown) in the context of their literary, artistic and personal influences. It will be shown that, far from assimilating the poet to a pantheon of important worthies, Dyce found in Dante contradictions and challenges to his Victorian, Anglican way of thinking. In this thesis these contradictions and challenges are explicated in each of the four works. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Art History 2013

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:18082
Date January 2013
ContributorsTiffany, Kristopher (Author), Serwint, Nancy (Advisor), Gully, Anthony (Committee member), Codell, Julie (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format88 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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