《神曲》The Divine Commedy in real life ....inspired by Dan Brown

看一下我的blog list, 可以見到我2007年 讀過了坦丁的 《神曲》《The Divine Commedy》.
我也不記得當時有沒有跟我的那2位書友提過, 但不論如何, 就算當時提起, 她們應該也不太知道這是一部怎樣的書 (也許知道是名著....) 而且我當時是因為想多了解天堂, 煉獄及地獄的concept而看的, 所以也不會多分享書的感想吧~~~~

怎麼今天又提到它呢? 因為我最愛的其中一位作家出了新作, 居然這次的主題就是圍繞《神曲》的第一章: 地獄---- Inferno

話說我居然是在新書發行的前一週才知道這有部書!!!! 當發現了,我馬上text我那2位摰友~~~然後說故事主題的居然是一部我看過了的書很興奮之類, 這時她兩才好像很驚訝的表示你居然看過這書啊~~~~~

今天開這篇blog,不是要分享Dan Brown 的那部Inferno (我還只是剛看了2天.......oh, 很不錯的啊~~~~) 而是一邊看Inferno, 慣例的一邊search 地名呀,buiding呀, 名畫呀, sculptures........時我才知道這世上是有那麼多出名的藝術品是inspired by Dante's Divine Commedy~~~~~in particular~~~~~by the Charpter "Inferno" .當然, 可能其他天堂及煉獄篇的也有很多作品, 只是Dan Brown 這裡理所當然的只介紹了相關的Inferno作品啦~~~~ 我在這mark 一下, 因為它們又remind我Dante's Inferno的內容, 而且把內容實體化, 有一天大家(或我自己)要讀這名著時可以有用啊~~~~~


我才看了100多頁, 就看到了很多作品囉:

這是Auguste Rodin 的 The Three Shades

Auguste Rodin好利害的作了一系列的Dante's Inferno作品呢~~~~ 我也很想到法國他的Rodin Museum 去看一下啊!

In the Inferno Dante describes three shades, souls of his departed countrymen, who danced in a circle as they told of their woeful state in Hades. Rodin’s The Three Shades stood upon the uppermost lintel of The Gates of Hell, crowning the tympanum just above The Thinker. The downward thrust of their left arms and their heads conveys despair as they summon the viewer to gaze upon the tumultuous drama of sin and damnation unfolding below them on The Gates. The most remarkable aspect of the work is that the three figures—even their pedestals—are identical, seen from the left, straight on, and from the right. The three figures radiate from a single point where their left arms converge, like spokes on a wheel. Dante wrote, “They all three made of themselves a wheel.” Rodin’s decision to use three identical figures may have its origins in Dante’s text. Canto III of the Inferno opens with the words Dante and Virgil read inscribed on the summit of the gateway leading to hell: ”Through me is the way into the doleful city / Through me is the way into eternal suffering / Through me is the way that runs among the lost.” Rodin’s triplicate figures echo the triplicate repetition in Dante’s lines. In the original plan of The Gates of Hell, the Shades pointed downward to an inscription—the one on Dante’s infernal gateway: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” -

The Last Judgement by Michelangelo in Sistine Chapel, Vatican City