Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hand-List of Framed Reproductions of Pictures and Portraits Belonging to the Dante Collection
AN te's preeminent position in the world of letters is well attested by the more than six thousand volumes in the F iske Dante Col lection. The aim of the small selection of reproductions of pictures which has been framed and hung on the walls surrounding the books, is not to give anything like an adequate idea of Dante's hold on the imagination of the artists. Gathered together in a series of portfolios on our Dante shelves and between the covers of numerous illustrated editions and works on Dante, is a wealth of material admirably setting forth this in?uence of Dante on art. With a very limited space at my command, I have chosen for framing such pictures mam as appeal to the feeling for the poetical in art, excluding those representations of the sufferings in the Inferno which, as Hazlitt said of Sir Joshua Reynolds' Ugolino, ought never to have been painted. I have tried to emphasize by the subjects here pre sented the fact that Dante is the poet of the higher nature of man, and not the mere recorder of the grotesque and horrible, which the popular mind, misled by incompetent critics and by such illustrations as those of Dor�, conceives him to be.
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