Portrait of Dante
Giotto di Bondone
1290-1300
Physical Description
Medium: fresco (long lost under whitewash)
Production Description
Production Date: 1290-1300
Provenance
Current Location: Altar wall, Bargello, Florence
Archival History: re-discovered 1839
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The importance of this fresco to DGR's development is demonstrated in his Giotto Panting the Portrait of Dante , part of the planned Dante Triptych . DGR's designs draw heavily from Seymour Kirkup's sketch of the Head of Dante .
Literary
Note DGR's translation of Giotto di Bondone's CANZONE Of the Doctrine of Voluntary Poverty .
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