Dante’s Inferno in the etchings by Domenico Ferrari
Exhibition of the 36 etchings that the artist Domenico Ferrari from Trento has realized in over two years of work in order to illustrate the whole Dante’s Inferno
It’s the first time these etchings have been exhibited to the public, after their remarkable exhibition last May at the senate of the Republic and in the presence of the Head of State, as “unique figurative contribution” at the solemn celebration of the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth.
The gratifying success gained at that very prestigious building has been followed in September by the publication of the volume “Dante’s Inferno in the etchings by Domenico Ferrari” (Salerno publishing house – Rome), in which the production of the works of art is preceded by a detailed essay by Professor Lucia Battaglia Ricci, who – as the greatest expert on Dantesque epigraphy – acknowledges Ferrari’s achievement of an extraordinary representative power, one of the most worth remembering in the centuries-old history of Divine Comedy’s figurative fortune. She particularly specifies that the etchings of Dante by Ferrari are not “a passive repetition of iconographic modules”, but they are “a fast innovative creation that always begins from the text in order to give life to extremely real figures, thanks to the representative power and formal perfection of the drawing.
