Published to coincide with this year’s 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a new book by art historian Professor Martin Kemp explores the impact of Dante’s vision of divine light on visual artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. Kent, a renowned Leonardo specialist, is the author of a series of important works on the history of optical science and its relationship to the world of art, including The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale University Press, 1990) and Seen and Unseen: Art, Science and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Visions of Heaven: Cante and the Art of Divine Light is published by Lund Humphires and combines a close reading of Dante’s poetry with analysis of early optics and the work of Renaissance and Baroque artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, and Baciccio.
For more information, see the publisher’s website: https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/168865.
