the joints have remained largely together in a well preserved condition. yeah here us this week here from this box i've just taken and one of the drawing sandra party cheli created for the divine comedy i have tapped the berlin cup for the net 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 also by. a pack of mantle so today about 10 have been lost at sea in a shower. why are these drawings so significant these works around like a typical bottom cheli painting large and colorful as are our nowadays and actually

ever since it was discovered and so this is considered to be one of the most important works of the renaissance severna sauce. it's fair to say that but each ele like no other 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 encompassing the inimitable power and magic as the artist the dantin journey through hell to paradise with a brush taking a static and intensity. all the drawings for a moment they collected in

a facsimile those that are expound on down 6 months here are some white pages. these are the sheets that are lost foreign and here it's quite interesting because we have this detailed map adele and fairly you can imagine more or less how to cheli was thinking about representing these cantos for which we have no sheets or to let our harm 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 del unfair no was drawn 1st as a kind of presentation for his quiet object. of 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 chilly 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 was a chilly takes up dante seems again he's motivated in 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 artist on that library in the vatican is the conceptual study the blueprint for the masterpiece encompassing all $100.00 counters it lays the foundation for the artist's unusual approach. to this and if it's interesting to compare body chalis drawings with what is essentially a contemporary kodak's produced between 14804095 of them get

a board here we have the traditional relationship between image and text if they stay images directly related to the taxed and it depicts only one moment. though in the years of selection from an important episode of the counter with body challenge we have a completely different vision. instead of depicting a single moment he followed. 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 cheli cycle and the traditional manuscripts of the times. 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 devises special arrangement of his images along with dentist tacks. he just slides to have each of the $100.00 can tell is written on the back of the parchment upside down bound in 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 mark 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

but a chinese 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 dante cycle because it helps trace the past taken by particularly where it traveled his her past. international exhibitions like this one at london's hotel gallery bring. a cycle tonight. creature from the covers of books these drawings never fail to surprise they have here is the unexpected power of this book to chante. viewers are absolutely fascinated by charlie's drawings one of the things that i've noticed over and over again is that they they go up to them and they look very very closely the drawings that because they're so delicate and so incredibly detailed. but of charley had

a very very deep and strong understanding of dante and his drawings absolutely part of the south he captured the darkness in the horrors of the inferno just as well as he did the divine beauty of paradise. when most people think about a child who i think oh i think of goddesses i think of angels i think of those some rather sweet elegant melancholy beauty this is a totally on their own side about a charlie to most people. this is the last counter in the inferno where dante and virginal reach the center the center of the earth the bottom of how and they encounter lucifer himself and he depicted lisa for very unusually on a double page as a full figure from god to take her 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 the body. to climb down his body hanging on to something shaggy car which then when they reach his flank 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 them to help once again the stars. we have to take ourselves back into the mindset of some of the jensen trees and some of the 15th century either willing to vote with us on this passage or. our new inferno is profoundly disturbing but us a chilly brings an equally imaginative and sunny full vision to what comes next

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 transformed the way artists work. 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 change is a quick and easy to make. the situation was dramatically different. in bush ellie's time. my stuff and busted cellini used a metal stylus to press initial outlines and ideas into the parchment sheets then he used a metal pen to make delicate bluish colored preliminary drawings as he decided on his image.

bushy cherry then finalized the drawings in ink he used pure alliance 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 of some drawings they allow us to leave the artist changing his mind we have evidence that he that he changed his mind about a competition and for example in that in the 1st wrong for paradise here which annoyed drew the figures in dante and beatrice flowing up out of the the earthly paradise into the 1st 0 of heaven and one side of the street and then at some point he decided he actually one of them on the exact opposite of the sheep 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 in the finished trying today but you can still see scattered ghosts ghostly figures of dante and the interests 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 the party cheli must have worked under pressure during some stages to under time pressure you made corrections erased you can also see at some point so kind of acceleration in execution music what's your name but the word did not go quickly but it surely labor doing for it for a very long time returning again and again for many years with. the dates of the drawings cover a long period from approximately the year 1480 to the year 4095. there are scholars who believe the execution of the drawings took place largely in the $49.00 days and young nor than the others think it took place over an even longer

period extending up until both a chinese death in 15 town. wishing to gauge we do we do have a lot of events that bother charlie 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 artist had that the war. a painting for a long time and we we can think about. the blue painted for 20 years. the same not painted and then perhaps or probably he had more important commission so he was stopping go stop rainfall and so for a long time they didn't finish and that's why they don't show doing for the next year there are 2 very interesting aspects. and these school nasties work on down

time took a very long time that. i can't deny caused problems for about a challenge. should be. the evolution and diversity intro into not including that of the renascence at best catalogued in the gallery entrance today we might think towered over everything the most powerful artist of his time. well actually at his time and that is very important to charlie 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 on diode this workshop got other sections so he wasn't even the primo center power as he was really one artist among perhaps a dozen great art. office time. star began to fade his name fell into oblivion and with it his art and his vision disappeared from view for hundreds

of years. another world another time the scottish lowlands unbelievable though it may sound it was here that after centuries of oblivion most of gaza chinese drawings of the divine comedy reappear. mannix love is the seat of the jeep of hamilton a lovely large castle but the former state of hamilton was vastly larger a real palace. long since destroyed today it exists only in photographs. and on with its imposing size the legendary hamilton palace was also a kind of treasure chest for art it was the 10th you could hamilton it was fascinated with extraordinary works of art who amassed this treasure. attempts to

cause hamilton 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 puts together a powerhouse and a treasure house which reflects the importance of himself and his family and it is an actual fact a demonstration of his status. did you cringe out of his way to leave a lasting impression on his visitors so you came in to was very very fine room with the bookcase is right around the room is glazed bookcases and then you would have propped open door 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 which. brought out the potter cheli illustrations he would have had a wealth of whites was he to do a stand because truly into richness that you could hamilton kept drawing in this binding and captivated me with 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. himself and his historical john had fallen out of favor in one sense so he was really being rediscovered and indeed through the medium of these wonderful drawings. here in scotland centuries later but it surely is drawings could once again be where did they come from how did they resurface. the reason for the duke is acquiring the potter surely drawings but he has been out it from 171001 to 2180 to 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. puts out in paris in april of 1803 and then when edwards is back you writes a letter to be the 10th you 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 actually his drawings. can be traced the 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 crash and stand this dates to france said the end of the 18th century 5th and so roughly sometime between the $780.00 s. and the early $79.00 days perhaps conclusion can be drawn from the papers and from

the remains of the people in the folds. but this binding replaces an older binding and we can't tell where the drawings were before for have an optician langer and perhaps they had been in france for some time not been nish basically we don't know where the drawings were from the time they left but it charlie's possession until molina collected and listed them here in this binding. list saying 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 in from view but 350 years after his death the time had come to charlie was celebrated once again. duke disposes of his collection because he was short of cash so he was embarrassed. by the mid 19th century the name but it

charlie resonated once again the times after 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 sandra but eternally of the divine comedy the director of the berlin. one was immediately interested his passionate desire was to a coup. why are these drawings by budget for the berlin. and the duke except on the 25th of october wages rose or guns come since the proceeds of. the original auction catalogue is converted into a protocol for the handover of hamilton is astonishing collection of art treasures passes into bernie in spanish in late october 18th 82 the how will turn collection

is packed into 18 think boxes and century english coast to berlin in separate shapes. it was a new journey into the on a bus a chase down taste cycle. only 85 drawings reached by. additional 7 was separated from the main body of work what is striking is that 3 of their is a colored one is the map adel 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. done to see it was not until 887

long after the english manuscripts been transferred to berlin it was not the art historian users. and austrians noticed that the 7 drawings thought to be from another representation of the divine comedy were actually part of the large collection stored and. 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. and of the most fascinating sheeps in berlin it's coloring makes it incredibly vivid and alive it looks magnificent and finished but. that's a bit interesting as we don't know if this she does finished because at least one figure is uncolored. it's here on the upper left. the hell monster gary on there it he's described by dante as the most colorful creature of found in

hell more colorful than woven oriental fabrics and yet on this color sheet kerri-anne is the only creature who is not colored at all. in the map adele inferno but a cherry 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 took they appear to be moving. just as down to a dozen words to charlie brings the figures to life in his drawings the flight. into color. on that signature dish dish beyond that of course is where the difficulty arose in your how can go rearm be made even more vivid more colorful obviously no solution was found which is why give me on is uncovered some before who wasn't just

making badly 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 what we call records 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 completing a cycle out black and white line drawings. on a drawing great variety of cool. it's a look there are some that are completely filled out and counted out the others just scratches because of that we can be sure that the walk was not completed computer. rescued from oblivion today people flock to see but a challenge. how does he manage to students by a people today with art that is more than 500 years old well it's certainly part of

the star system of art history that is very much comparable with famous actors or so that you have the superstars is a superstar in our perception was a chair he strode the masses with his i usual imagination as well as with his portrayals of beauty and femininity. his feminine ideal and vision of d.t. was always inspired by his muse is the one at a vis. she was considered the most beautiful woman of the time but it charlie's paintings of her in turn were considered purrfect portrayed of her beauty and the fascinated countless artists with them including leonardo da vinci.

the new santi the florentine neighborhood where but a cellist spent much of his life. here in the church just a few metres from via departure nona lyons his final resting place. in my. home. i've. got a child. work is is everywhere so i don't like there's much chance of him doing forgotten for hundreds of year as i say as he was between his stuff and the lunches on trade. this is how bush cheny would have wanted it people see his team they celebrate knife and they can chip believe see the beauty of the moment her attorneys say

a kind of paradise. sandro body chani from the city of osseous and genius. immortalized. he gave us his songs. to charities original is returned to the temperature controlled chain best of the vatican until the day may be able to see it more completely and discover even more .

reviving forgotten churches from their slumber of the week and then redesigning them and this has become a mission of our artists most of it. she is challenging church congregations within our at. least artist who think mr taylor. back. in 30 minutes on d w. o

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