net the museum of prints and drawings the collection is both a treasure and under a miracle in more than 500 years of existence the drawings have remained largely together in a well preserved condition. yeah here as this with here from this box i've just taken in one of the drawing sandra party cheli created for the divine comedy. act the berlin cabinet holds 85 of these drawings of lives that are saved by another 7 from the cycle are kept at the vatican. we assume that the cycle originally included $102.00 parchments by. packer manto so today about 10 have been lost at sea and ashore and.

why are these drawings so significant these works around like a typical body cheli painting large and colorful as are our nowadays and actually ever since it was discovered this is considered to be one of the most important works of the renaissance several mythos. it's fair to say that but each ellie like no other is down to a illustrator before or after him was able to visualize the words of dante watson he translated the words into images and presents them to us as a story told in pictures to top it. this is not a single work of art but rather $92.00 individual works each in itself is a fascinating piece in compassing the inimitable power and magic of the artist the dantin journey through hell to paradise with a brush taking a static and intensity. all

the drawings from rome and the collected in a facsimile those that are expound on down 6 months here are some white pages i make biases these are the sheets that are lost foreign and here it's quite interesting because we have this detailed map or delon fairly you can imagine more or less how potentially was thinking about representin least cantos for which we have no sheets for to let our conduct out. with the muppets and inferno but it surely begins his cycle by illustrating the entire path into and through hell. why. we are forced there i can imagine that the muppet delane sereno was drawn 1st as a kind of presentation for his client. off that but he

chile executed this 1st and showed it to him this is how i imagine it looking this is what the arrangement of the scenes will be. in $49.00 he won after only a few months but a cherry interrupts his work on the divine comedy cycle he goes to rome where he spends more than a year creating frescoes for the sistine chapel a great sauna in recognition of his talent. back in florence but a chilly takes on dante seems again he's motivated and creative and finds a narrative style this is absolutely unique indeed but it surely proves to be a great innovator carving new artistic part of. the map adele furner in the eye of a stoic librarian the vatican is the conceptual studying the blueprint for the masterpiece encompassing all $100.00 candles it lays the foundation for the artist's unusual approach. to this and it's

interesting to compare body chalis drawings with what is essentially a contemporary codex produced between 14184905 of the on the portal there we have the traditional relationship between image and text if. the image is directly related to the taxed and it depicts only one moment. though in the sense of selection from an important episode of the counter with body jelly we have a completely different vision i mean instead of depicting a single moment he follows. steadily and over time. in the circles of hell for example you can see dante and virgil up at the top distinguished from one another by the color of their own. they enter and then you see how they walk through 9 circles the image shows the whole process.

this is the enormous difference between potter challenge cycle and the traditional manuscripts of the times. but botticelli goes a step further he needs more space for his drawings and comes up with something new in addition to telling an ongoing story in a single sheet but it also devices special arrangement of his images along with dentist text he just slides to have each of the $100.00 cantos written on the back of the parchment upside down bound each image would then appear at the top of the page with the corresponding candidate printed below thus it becomes clear this must be a book with the map of hell as cover image. the likelihood is if you have $102.00 sheets of parchment that need to be in a certain fixed order and that it will be about anything else would actually be

a logical. in addition to drawings the binding itself is treasure this work of art is kept in berlin the binding is extremely significant to understanding the history of the dentist cycle because it helps trace the past taken by putting. where it traveled whose hands it passed through. international exhibitions like this one at london's gallery bringing. a cycle to light. cre trim the covers of books these drawings never fail to surprise that here is the unexpected power of this book to tell. the viewers are absolutely fascinated by strong's one of the things that i've noticed over and over again is that they think i'm up

to them and they look very very closely the drawings that because they're so delicate and so incredibly detailed a. lot of charlie had a very very deep and strong understanding of dante and his drawings absolutely part of the south he captured the darkness in the form of the inferno just as well as he did the divine beauty of paradise. when most people think of all the charlie i think of i think of goddesses i think of angels i think of this song rather sweet elegant melancholy beauty this is a totally unknown side about a challenge to most people. this is the last counter in the inferno where dante and virtual reach the center the center of the earth the bottom of how and they encounter lucifer himself and he to

kick to boost for very unusually on a double page as a full figure from god to take you from head to foot and he's done this so that he can actually show the action the central action of the final count which is actually dante and virtual escaping from hell and they have to do so by climbing all the way down body. to climb down this body hanging on to something shag then when they reach this flame they turn what looks to us upside down but they're actually turning off right and they're climbing up toward the surface of the earth. in the opposite direction and you actually see them heading up toward the surface here and of course though the counter ends with the very famous line so we can force and behold once again the stars. we have to think ourselves back into the mindset of someone 15 centuries and some of the 15th century i do and about what if on this passage or.

inferno is profoundly disturbing but brings an equally imaginative and son full vision into book comes. from the inferno he leads us on parchment through purgatory to paradise. except for a few sheets with color these are mostly just line drawings often executed in great detail they are always full of passion the challenge grows increasingly difficult for the artist the closer he gets to paradise. all these parchments were drawn by hand and they are artistically highly complex how long did it take him. the world of drawing looks completely different today. modern technical possibilities have transformed the way artists. digital tools enable creative freedoms making it easier for artists to respond quickly and flexibly to

time pressure and new creative demands. virtual ink on virtual natural materials can be used to create images in the style of other. ideas approaches 2nd thoughts today changes a quick can't easy to make. the situation was dramatically different embodied time. most often used a metal stylus to press initial outlines and ideas into the parchment shapes then he used a metal pen to make delicate bluish colored preliminary drawings as he decided on

his image. chani then finalized the drawings in ink he used. applying great experience and skill. a capacity for reflection and the ability to plan an image in his mind was enormously important because parchment was expensive but it surely couldn't just crumple it up and throw it away if he was dissatisfied. as a result some drawings allow us to see the artist changing his mind we have evidence that he that he changed his mind about a composition and for example in that in the 1st strong for paradise here which annoyed drew the figures in dante and beatrice flowing up out of the the earthly paradise into the 1st series of haven't one side of the street and then at some point he decided he actually one of them on the exact opposite of the shape of the

side of the ship so he turned he turned the sheet 180 degrees and drew them in in ink so this is what we see him in the finish trying to do but you can still see you can scatter ghosts ghostly figures of dante and the appearance below them. not all decisions were purely creative at various points in the cycle it's clear that the undertaking presented with difficulties. we can assume that are to charlie must have worked under pressure during some stages to under time pressure he made corrections here raised you can also see at some point some kind of acceleration in execution music it's yours but the work did not go quickly to charlie labor day for it for a very long time returning again and again for many years. the dates of the drawings cover a long period from approximately the year 1480 to the year 4095 with.

there are scholars who believe the execution of the drawings took place largely in the $49.00 tents and young more than others think it took place an even longer period extending up until dawn to chant his death in 15 town. wishing to gauge we do we do have evidence that baba chile may have worked on some of the drawings over a long period of time a few of them we can see that he used some 2 or 3 different colored inks which suggests that he did part of the drawing went went out about it came back into it another part of it there are some artists out there the work. painting for a long time out way we can think about. he painted there for 20 years. the same not painted and then perhaps or probably he had more important commission so he was stopping go stopping go and so for a long time they didn't finish its work. she would do it for next year there are 2

very interesting aspects then the school nasties work on dante took a very long time that was for 2nd durang caused problems the party challenge. should mean. the evolution and diversity intro into not including that are there in a sounds at best catalogued in new 50 gallery introns today we might think but it surely towered over everything the most powerful artist of his time. well actually at his time and that is very important part to tell he was not such a special artist he was really one important artist among a dozen others and you can see that from the sistine chapel from the frescoes in the lower part of the sistine chapel were to charlie got one but the others got one diode this workshop got other sections so he wasn't even the primo center power as he was really one artist among the props

a dozen great artists. office time. but a chilly star began to fade his name fell into oblivion and with it his art and his vision disappeared from view for hundreds of vs. another world another time the scottish lowlands unbelievable though it may sound it was here that after centuries of oblivion most of but a chinese drawings of the divine comedy reappear. mannix love is the seat of the jeep of hamilton a lovely council but the former state of hamilton was vastly najera a real palace. long since destroyed today it exists only in french graphs. along with its imposing size the legendary hamilton palace was also

a kind of treasure chest for art it was the 10th stupid hamilton who was fascinated with extraordinary works of art who amassed this treasure. attempts to confirm. it was a very shy man he was a very proud man he was very proud of the fact that he was duke of hamilton and brandon he was the premier peer of scotland and he wanted people to really appreciate that he was a very very very important individual and he put together a powerhouse a treasure house which reflects the importance of himself and his family and it is an actual fact a demonstration of his status. the jew kwento out of his way to leave a lasting impression on his visitors so you came into this very very fine room with the bookcases right around the walls glazed bookcases and then you would have

perhaps opened or he would have opened one of the glazed bookcases for you and you would have had 100150 titles to choose and he could have just brought out the great missile of god. or you could brought out a pot of chili illustrations you would have had a wealth of way to listen to the official stand it was truly to richardson that you could hamilton kept drawing in this binding and captivated for you is the artist's vision. when the codex under his collection and was and seen by the many guests invited to come to view his library it really was a revelation to people bother showing himself and his because our church on had fallen out of favor long since so he was really being rediscovered and indeed through the medium of these wonderful drawings. here in scotland and series later but it really is drawings could once again be where did they come from how did they

resurface. the reason for the dukas acquiring the potter cheli drawings but he's been out it from 791221802 acquiring manuscripts lots and lots of manuscripts he comes back to britain and he is introduced to the leading london bookseller james edwards who becomes his mentor and supplier edwards out in paris in april of $1803.00 and then when edwards is barchi writes a letter to be 10 skew saying that he's just returned from paris where he was spied on manuscripts atmel ynys. cloudy a 1000000 years the 1st person to him but a chili's drawing. can be traced a handwritten note by millenium and the cover of the most important clues to the question of where they had been all those e s. . in frank right and stand this states to france at the end of the 18th century

5th and hold up so roughly sometime between the $780.00 s. and the early $79.00 days. conclusion can be drawn from the papers and from the remains of the people in the folds. but this is binding replaces an older binding and we can tell where the drawings were before for have an optician langner perhaps they had been in france for some time perhaps not finished or basically we don't know where the drawings were from the time they left but it surely is possession until malini collected and listed them here in this binding. off list say the question of who 1st recognized the astonishing artistic value of the body cherry codex remains unknown by the late 18th century at least we know that butter cheli had launched the fall and from view but 350 years after his death the time had come to charlie was celebrated once again. duke disposes of this collection

because he is short of cash so he's embarrassed. by the mid 19th century the name but it surely resonated once again. times in january $882.00 the times carried a brief notice that the duke of hamilton was planning to sell his manuscript collection at auction probably in the fall this manuscript collection was said to contain particularly exquisite pieces including a volume of drawings possibly by the hand of son robert a tele of the divine comedy the director of the berlin accomplished. and was immediately interested his passionate desire was to acquire these drawings by buddy charlie for the berlin. and the duke exception on the 20 sister oct 18th rose with guns comes in from the proceeds of. the original auction

catalog is converted into a protocol for the handover of hamilton's astonishing collection of art treasures passes into the ship in late october 1882 the hamilton collection is packed into 18 think boxes and sent from the english coast to berlin in july separate ships. it is a new journey into the unnamed for bush at least down taste cycle. only 85 drawings which. educational 7 was separated from the main body of work striking is that 3 of their is a college one is the map adèle in fana. perhaps due to their religious appeal the 7 drawings found their way to the vatican in rome but here of all places they

remained undiscovered for a long time. it was not until $887.00 long after the english manuscripts of been transferred to berlin that the art historian you also struck an austrian notice that the 7 drawings thought to be from another representation of the divine comedy were actually part of the large collection stored and. that. it was an exceptionally fortunate moment when he realized that they were by bhattacharya and had been extracted from the codex is that he then called the ship. probably one of the most fascinating sheeps in berlin it's coloring makes it in credit. vivid and alive it looks magnificent and finished but. that's very interesting as we don't know if this sheet is finished because at least one thing is uncolored. it's here on the

upper left. the hell monster gary on there with that he's described by dante as the most colorful critter i found in hell more colorful than woven oriental fabrics and yet on this colored sheet kerri-anne is the only creature who is not colored at all. in the map adele inferno but it challenged provides an indication of carians appearance but the challenge of depicting the most colorful creature in hell is a daunting one the other figures are extremely imaginative and vivid green they fight they talk they appear to be moving. just as down tight as the words but it charlie brings the figures to mind for his drawings with the use of night. and color. of that signature dish history and that of course is

where the difficulty arose in getting your how can go rearm be made even more vivid more colorful obviously no solution was found which is why go really on is uncovered and there are some fun one to get me on the score of yes. it's possible that the length of time but it took a clue to finishing it and in the sense of the color it gets but it is it is also possible that it was decided that the un color drawing some were beautiful enough in themselves to justify simply from political cycle outs black and white line drawings. not drawing great variety. there are some that are completely fell down time to come and others are just. catches we because of that we can be sure that the walk was not completed the computer. rescued from

oblivion today people flock to see but a challenge. how does he manage to still inspire people today with all that is more than 500 years old well it's certainly part of the star system of art history about as the very much comparable with famous actors or so that you have the superstars is a superstar in our perception. that was pushy cherry's thrilled the masses with his unusual imagination as well as with his portrayals of beauty and femininity. his feminine ideal and vision of beauty was always inspired by his muse is the one at of his. she was considered the most beautiful woman of the time but in chile's paintings of hiring turner considered purrfect poor traits of her beauty here he fascinated countless artists with them including leonardo da vinci's.

the new santi the florentine neighborhood where spent much of his life. he air in the church just a few metres from via departure lana lyons his final resting place. is work in skins everywhere so there i don't think there's much chance of him being forgotten from. it appears as he as he was on the train and stuff around the night infantry. this town was a challenge was the one today's people flock to his they celebrate life and now

they can cheer me to see the beauty of the moment courage chancing a kind of paradise sandro botticelli from the city of artists and genius. i am more to leinster beauty he gave us his sound. a i pad. but a chinese original is returned to the temperature controlled chambers of the vatican until the day when we may be able to see it more completely and discover even more .

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