Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Portraits of Dante Compared With the Measurement of His Skull and Reclassified
Limited scope of the study - p. 1; Boccaccio's description of Dante pp. 1-2; was Dante bearded and light haired - p. 2; discovery of Dante's bones - p. 3; the reconstruction of the skull from the measurements - p. 4; missing measurements unimportant - p. 5; use Of the skull diagram for checking purposes illustrated with the so-called death-mask - pp. 5, 6; Giotto's Dante, its date and authenticity - pp. 6 - 8; why is Dante painted so young - p. 9; the discovery of Giotto's Dante in 1840 10; Seymour Kirkup's service in making copies before the restoration - pp. 10, 11; the color of the hood wrong in all copies - p. 11; close agreement of skull and Giotto's portrait - p. 11; small in?uence of Giotto's Dante because not grim enough in character - p. 11; The Palatine Miniature as a copy of Taddeo Gaddi's lost Dante portrait, pp. 11-15; Taddeo might have seen Dante between 1312 and 1321, - p. 15; Taddeo's portrait probably before I330 - p. 16; comparison of Giotto's and Taddeo's portraits - pp. 16, 17; reconstructions of Dante's features from the Skull-plan, very similar to the Palatine - p. 17; in?uence of T addeo's portrait and its destruction by Vasari - p. 18.
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