to day berlin is home to the lion's share of body chelsea's, extensive collection of drawings for dante's camelia. for the berlin cook fresh dish cabinet, the museum of prints and drawings. the collection is both a treasure and a miracle in more than 500 years of existence. ringback the drawings have remained largely together in a well preserved condition. yeah, he asked isn't here from this box i've just taken at one of the drawing sondra but italy created for the divine comedy. derek 5 not that. at the berlin codfish dish cabinet holds 85 of these dry this moment. all right, that a thief. another 7 from the cycle are kept at the vatican off part. we assume that the cycle originally included 102 parchments as also by m pack

a mental far so today about 10 have been last lighter. it had seen fessler why these drawing so significant? these works are, unlike a typical butter chelly painting, large and colorful. as are nowadays, and actually ever since it was discovered that his little consider to be one of the most important works of the renaissance. several, a thought. i fair to say that, but it's shelly like no other dante illustrator before or after him. battle was able to visualize the words of dante d. vaught. he translated the words into images and presented them to us as the story told. and after this, like a shift adopted, ah, this is not a single work of art, but rather 92 individual works. each in itself is a fascinating piece, encompassing the inimitable power and magic of the artist,

the danty and journey through hell to paradise. with a breathtaking aesthetics and intensity, ah, all the drawings from rome and berlin are collected in a fax, emily, those that are scanned on dan statement. here are some white pages. i'm advice of these are the sheets that are la swollen and here it's quite interesting because we have this detailed in my paddle and fair no fan or you can imagine more or less how potentially was thinking about representing these cantos that for which we have no sheets for tv. okay. let uh hum data with the map ardelane for no butter. chelly begins his cycle by illustrating the entire path into and through hell. why is can me a force then?

i can imagine that the map, a del unfair, no, was drawn 1st as a kind of presentation for his client kentucky. one's object who had been offered up keeper, that but he chelly executed this 1st on him and showed it to him better. yeah, this is how i imagine it looking, this is what the arrangement of the scenes will be in $1491.00 after only a few months. but italy 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 honor in recognition of his talent. back in florence. but a chilly takes up dante seems again, he's motivated and creative and finds and narrative style that is absolutely unique indeed, but italy proves to be a great innovator, carving new, artistic paths. ah, the napa dello surnow in the apostolic library in the vatican is the conceptual

study, the blueprint for the masterpiece, encompassing all 100 can taste. it lays the foundation for the artists unusual approach we look at, but i would think that his son, the if i don't think it's interesting to compare body charlie's drawings with what is essentially a contemporary codecs produced between 14801495. and again, we had a port book here, we have the traditional relationship between image and text, a full scenario to face. the image is directly related to the jagged man and it depends only one moment. i will follow me though english is our selection from an important episode of the kanto, live with water jelly. we have a completely different vision will be. that means that he moves, instead of depicting a single moment, he follow plans and steadily and over time will cheat, glory, to ha, all gone. the moon was in the circle of hell. for example, you can see dante and virgil up at the top, or distinguished from one another by the color of their roverson,

released the color they enter, and then you see how they walk through or 9 circles you. the image shows the whole process manually. again, quote the model, this is the enormous difference between body charlie cycle and the traditional manuscripts of the time b, a will mosquito that it's yolanda ah, but, but it jelly 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 actually also devices, a special arrangement of his images along with dante's text. he decides to have each of the $100.00 can toes written on the back of the parchment upside down bound . each image would then appear at the top of the page with the corresponding can say, printed below. thus, it becomes clear. this must be a book with the map of hell as cover image,

assign length. the likelihood is if you have $102.00 sheets of parchment that need to be in a certain i fixed order in for that it will be bowed. escalate. anything else would actually be a logical of outward and us, as of english, english. in addition to butter jellies, 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 path taken by but a chillies work where it travels, whose hands it passed through. international exhibitions like this one at london's hotel gallery bring, but italy's dante cycle to light read from the covers of books. these drawings never failed to surprise them. he was the unexpected powerful of botany. ah,

the viewers are absolutely fascinated by don't bother chillies drawings. one of the things that um, i've noticed over and over again is that they, they go up to them and they look very, very closely their drawings lead because they're so delicate and so incredibly detailed. but of chelly on the had a very, very deep and strong understanding of, of dante and his drawings. absolutely. barrett the south. he them, he captured the darkness and the horrors of the inferno, just as well as he did being, am divine beauty of paradise. when most people think about a child, i think i think of goddesses, i think of angels, i think of this song, rather sweet, elegant melancholy beauty. this is a totally unknown sight about a chelly to most people. ah,

this is the, the last canter in the inferno where dante virtual reached the center or the center of the earth, the bottom of hell, and they encounter lucifer himself. and he depicted lucifer very unusually. i'm a double page. i'm as a full figure from dog depicted from head to foot and he's done this so that he can actually show the action the central action of the um, the, the final counter which is long actually dante and virtual are escaping from hell. and they have to do so by climbing all the way down to the body. they climb down his body hanging on to his on the shaggy coat. then when the reaches fling, they turn, what looks to us upside down, but they're actually turning upright and they're climbing up toward the surface of the earth in the also direction and your actual salon heading up toward the surface here. um, and of course though, the counter ends with the that the very famous line. so we came forth and beheld once again the stars. we have to think ourselves back into the mindset of someone

to move to in century. and someone on the 15th century, ivory willing about what a promise upset with her mind. the inferno is profoundly disturbing, but, but italy brings an equally imaginative and some 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 mine 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 would drop by hand, and they are artistically highly complex. how long did it take him? ah, the world of drawing looks completely different to day. modern technical

possibilities have transformed the way artists walk. digital tools enable new creative freedoms, making it easier for artists to respond quickly and flexibility to time pressure and new creative demands move you will, inc, on virtual natural materials, can be used to create images in the style of other epochs. ah, ideas approaches, 2nd thoughts. today change is a quick and easy to make. ah, the situation was dramatically difference in but italy's time, ah most often bossy, chilly, 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. ah bushy chelly then finalized the drawings in ink. he used pure lines, 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 actually couldn't just crumple it up and throw it away if he was dissatisfied. as the 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. i'm, for example, in the, in the, the 1st drawing from paradise. ah, he originally drew on the figures of dante and beatrice,

floating up from out of the on the earthly paradise into the 1st fear of heaven. i'm on one side of the sheet and then at some point he decided he actually one of them on the exact opposite of the sheet of the side of the shape. so he turns he turned the sheet a 180 degrees enter the men in inc. a so this was obviously in the finish trying today, but you can still see of kind of ghost ghostly figures of dante and beatrice on below them. not all decisions were purely creative at various leaps in the cycle. it's clear that the undertaking presented budget chaney with difficulties support didn't get again. we can assume that party chelly must have worked under pressure during some stages to under time pressure that politically made corrections he raised. you can also see at some point, sir, kind of acceleration and execution. music was yawning, but the work did not go quickly, but actually labored over it for a very long time returning again and again for many years. i presume with you,

i mean didn't zeeny the dates of the drawings cover a long period from approximately the year 1480 to the of 1495 with there are scholars who believe the execution of the drawings to plays largely in the 14 ninety's a young november the others think it took place over an even longer period. smoke is extending up until bought charlie's death in 1510 book, the shady, niche and cushing collision. we don't, we do have other than flat thumb, but the chelly may have worked on some of the drawings over a long period of time. a few of them. we can see that he had some 2 or 3 different colored inks, which suggest that he did part of the drawing, went by and thought about it came back and another part of it. there are some odd days that the war cur, at a painting guy for a long time. and we, we can think about the don't add to the v g. he paid that the for 20th,

or the same, not paid. and then perhaps a probably he had the more important commission and so he, he stopping ghost abrego and so for a long time he didn't finish his work. bill she so doing for me you there are 2 very interesting aspects level than the school fast his work on dante took a very long time and that wistful peril. second, this delay caused problems the body jelly. what he showed me the evolution and diversity in florentine art, including that of the renaissance, a best catalogued in the fitzy gallery in florence. to day, we might think, but a chelly towered over everything the most powerful artist of his time. well, actually at his time, and that is very important, or to truly was not such a special ard as he was really one important artist among a dozen others. and can see that from the sistine chapel from the frescos in the lower part of the sistine chapel. were water. charlie got one,

but then others gallon diode his workshop got other sections. so he wasn't even the pre most in her power as he was really a one artist among perhaps a dozen great artists office time. but he kelly's began to fade, his name fell into oblivion and with it, his aunt and his vision disappeared from view for hundreds of years. ah, another world, another time at the scottish lowlands. unbelievable though it may sound, it was here that after centuries of oblivion, most of bought italy's drawings of the divine comedy reappeared. ah, lennox love is the seat of the duke of hamilton, a lovely large castle. but the former seat of hamilton was vastly nadia. a real

palace long since destroyed to day, it exists only in photographs along with its imposing size. the legendary hamilton palace was also a kind of treasure chest for art. it was the 10th duke of hamilton, who was fascinated with extraordinary works of art, who amassed this treasure, the temps. kirk of hamilton, i was a very shy man. he was very proud man. he was very proud of the fact, but 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 on the treasure house, which reflects the importance of himself and his family. and it is an actual fact, a demonstration of his status. the duke went out of his way to leave a lasting impression on his visitors. so you came in to was very,

very fine room with see and bookcases right around the walls, greys book cases and and then you would have perhaps opened or he would have opened one of the glazed book cases for you. and you would have had a $150.00 titles to choose and he could have just brought out the great missile of caudle, julia domenici, or he could have brought out. they bought italia lustration. she would have had a wealth by 2 latitude of absence. stung, it was truly embarrassment of riches. the duke of hamilton kept posted charlie's drawings in this binding and captivated view is that the artists vision, wow. when the codecs under his collection and was and seen by the many guests invited to um, to view his library, it really was a revelation to people bother chilly of himself and his art had young 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,

centuries later. but italy's drawings could once again be viewed, where did they come from? how did they, we surface the reason that the, the duke is acquiring the potter chelly of drawings, his but he has been out of italy from 179122180. 2, acquiring manuscripts, lots and lots a manuscript. he comes back to, to britain, and he is introduced to the leading london bookseller. james edwards, who becomes his mentor and supplier, and edwards is out in paris and in april of 18 o free. and then when edward is back, he writes a letter to be returned to school, saying, but he's just returned from paris, where he has spied our manuscripts. i'm at molinas, claudio molina is the 1st person to him, but italy's drawing can be traced a handwritten note by marleni and the cover of the most important clues to the

question of where they had been all those years. m f. in franklin and stan this states to france at the end of the 18th century and 5th and hold up i so roughly some time between the 1780 s and the early 70 ninety's austin. popular conclusion can be drawn from the papers up here and from the remains of the paper in the folder abba, but this is binding replaces an older binding i'm found, and we can't tell where the drawings were before. 5, no one for heaven optician langer, and perhaps they had been in france for some time. i thought perhaps not, and finished worth it. basically, we don't know where the drawings were from the time they left butted shirley's possession until molina collected and listed them here in this bindings. all phyllis settled, say it. the question of who 1st recognized the astonishing artistic value of the body jelly codecs remains unknown. by the late 18th century,

at least we know that but charley had largely fallen from view. but 350 years after his death, the time had come. but italy was celebrated once again in 12th duke disposes of his collection because he had short of cash. so he is embarrassed by the mid 19th century, the name, but italy resonated once again at times, but after mid january, $1882.00, the time was carried a brief notice that the duke of hamilton was planning to sell his manuscript collection at auction with him. probably in the fall or this manuscript collection was said to contain particularly exquisite pieces, including a volume of drawings, possibly by the hand of sondra, but to italy of the divine comedy, the director of the berlin accomplished ish. cubby, netflix lipman was immediately interested. his passionate desire was to acquire these drawings by body chelly for the berlin cup bush cabinet. the sun institute,

except on the 26th of october, kieschnick 80000 pounds, comes in from the prussian government. the original auction castillo, he is converted into a protocol for the handover. the duke of hamilton's astonishing collection of art treasures passes into berlin's ownership. in late october 18, 82, the hamilton collection is packed into 18 zinc boxes and sent from the english coast to berlin. in 4 separate ships. ah, it was a new journey into the unknown from butter chili's dante sancho, ah, only 85 drawings reached berlin. an additional 7 was separated from the main body of work. what is striking is that 3 of those a colored one is the map,

adel inferno, 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. so long me mute the st. looked on the sea. it was not until 1897 long after the english manuscript had been transferred to berlin. the law thinks that the art historian yoseph struck off ski. an austrian st. noticed that the 7 drawings thought to be from another representation of the divine comedy on me. we're actually part of the launch collection store in berlin. so lucky, much about a fading couldn't mean forbidden either. when it was an exceptionally fortunate moment, these, when he realised that they were by bought italy's okay. and had been extracted from the contacts being will, is that the that called the ship? probably one of the most fascinating sheets in berlin. it's coloring makes it in

credit, visit and alive. it looks magnificent and finished. but is it ever since we don't know if this sheet is finished, because at least one figure is uncolored. korea, it's here on the upper left or the hell monster gary on the ripped by that he's described by dante, as the most colorful creature found in hell, more colorful than woven oriental fabrics. and yet on this color cheat, korean is the only creature who is not colored at all. in the map, a dylan fan, no butter jelly provides an indication of gary ins, appearance. but the challenge of depicting the most colorful creature in hell is a daunting one. the other figures are extremely imaginative and vivid. they scream, they fight, they talk. they appear to be moving just as dante does in

words. but italy brings the figures to life in his drawings with the use of light shadow and color. and i had seen a truly dish view that of course is where the difficulty arose in getty, how can go re on be made even more vivid, more colorful, often by obviously our solution was found, which is why korean is uncolored a nurse and go from robin to swing a scorpion, which corrode yet it's possible that john though the length of time, but it took on precluded finishing ups and in the sense of fully color again. but it is, it is also possible that um, it was decided that the on color drawings, some were beautiful enough in themselves to justify simply am completing the cycle as a black and white wine drawings. she let me be, does anybody think that a drawing shall great variety, cooney, so there are some that are completely filled out and collared alco. others are just

catches because of that at the we can be sure that the work was not complete. it will computer rescued from oblivion to day. people flocked to see but a chelly. how does he managed to still inspire people to day with aunt that is more than 500 years old? well, it's certainly part of the star system of art history that is better, much comparable with famous actors as all of you have the superstars now. but to charlie is a superstar in our perception posted. teddy thrilled the masses with his unusual imagination, as well as with his portrayals of beauty and femininity. ah, his feminine ideal and vision of beauty was always inspired by his muse. in gwinnett of his beauty. she was considered the most beautiful woman of the time, but had chillies, paintings of her, in turn were considered perfect port,

trace of her beauty. he fascinated countless artists with them, including leonardo da vinci ah, knew santi, the florentine neighbourhood where, but actually spent much of his life here in the church, just a few meters from via to potty, lana blaze. his final resting place. ah ah father shall these work is everywhere. so i don't think there's much chance of him

being forgotten for of your associates. he was on between his dad and the 19th century based his how bossy chelly would have wanted it. people flocked to his city . they celebrate knife and now they captured beauty. the beauty of the moment for eternity. a kind of paradise sandra bought a chaney from the city of artists and genius. he immortalized beauty. he gave us his aunt. ah boasted chillies 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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