Inferno: The Art Collection
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
SPECTACULAR AND MIND BLOWING IMAGES OF DANTE'S INFERNO USED IN TWO ACCLAIMED FILMS!
Do You Love Horror Books? "Inferno" will Scare You Death!
"Inferno - The Art Collection" by Dino Di Durante is a full color book of a 72-piece Italian 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.
Two films, produced by Boris Acosta - The Divine Comedy Hollywood expert, feature the paintings in this amazing one of a kind book. One of them is already
available in DVD as a medium length film titled "Dante's Hell Animated" featuring Eric Roberts as Dante's voice. The other one, "Inferno by Dante", is expected to premiere at the Cannes Films Festival in May, 2016.
Nobody until now since Sandro Botticelli, over 500 years ago, has done such an accurate visual interpretation on such a complex story to comprehend, like Dino Di Durante.
Best choice as a companion and a visual reference to any Inferno book ever written.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This collection of illustrations by Di Durante is intended to provide visual accompaniment for the first canto in Dante's masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, but it falls flat in its depiction. Di Durante's preface describes his creative journey, mentioning Salvador Dal and Sandro Botticelli as his artistic antecedents. He hopes in his introduction that his work will "visually convey" Dante's message in order that readers may "find purpose in this life." The bulk of the work consists of 72 full-page images, each depicting a scene from Inferno with a brief caption along with two QR codes; one links to the associated text of the book and the other to a web page where copies of the artwork may be purchased. Di Durante never describes the medium he uses, but the images are reminiscent of computer-generated art. The best of the images are adequate representations of Dante's story but not more than that. The premise of the book is interesting, but its execution adds little to the story other than a visual aid. Color illus. (BookLife)
