Rhoda Eitel-Porter is an expert in 16th-century Italian drawings and prints as well as editor of Print Quarterly, an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the art of the print. from its origins to the present. Dr. Eitel-Porter previously worked as curator and department head, Drawings and Prints, at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum, London. She is co-author of “Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings” (2006), “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection” (2010), and “Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum” (2019). Dr. Eitel-Porter’s recent articles consider Lelio Orsi as well as the Morgan Museum’s Vellutello drawings illustrating Dante’s “Divine Comedy”; an essay on the drawings in the context of 16th-century printed and drawn Dante illustrations is forthcoming. Her doctoral thesis on the Roman mannerist draughtsman and painter Cesare Nebbia was published in 2009.
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Visualizing Dante in the 16th Century
An Amateur’s Art
Saturday, October 16, 2021, 9:30am EDT
Event Overview
From its creation, Dante Alighieri’s poetry has inspired the world’s greatest writers, artists, and thinkers. His groundbreaking “Divine Comedy,” completed in 1320, became muse to giants of the Italian Renaissance — among them Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccari — as well as to scholars seeking to illuminate the complex poem through imagery.
Join Rhoda Eitel-Porter, an expert on 16th-century Italian drawings and prints, as she explores the work of literary scholar Alessandro Vellutello (b. 1473), whose drawings likely became the basis for the highly influential series of woodcuts illustrating the 1544 edition of “Divine Comedy.” Dr. Eitel-Porter will guide you through Vellutello’s unique vision of Dante’s work — from its unusual emphasis on barren, volcanic terrain to the intricate illustrations of each circle of hell and Purgatory — and examine how the perspective of the comparatively amateur Vellutello varied from those of his more-famous Renaissance contemporaries.
This is the first talk in Cornell’s “Visions of Dante” Study Day, a day-long special event held in conjunction with the Johnson Museum of Art’s “Visions of Dante” exhibition, timed to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. The Vellutello drawings and woodcuts are part of the exhibit, on loan from the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection.
Agenda
9:30-10:30 AM ET: Visualizing Dante in the 16th Century: An Amateur’s Art (Rhoda Eitel-Porter)
10:45-11:45 AM ET: From Etruria to the New World: Cornell’s Copy of the Editio Princeps of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Between Book History, Bibliophilia, and Exegesis (Natale Vacalebre)
1:00-1:45 PM ET: Exhibition Tour (curators Laurent Ferri and Andrew Weislogel)
2:00-3:00 PM ET: Meeting Dante (artist Sandow Birk)
3:15-4:15 PM ET: A Dante Afterlife: LeRoi Jones’s “System of Dante’s Hell” and Derek Walcott’s “Omeros” (Maryemma Graham)
Join Rhoda Eitel-Porter, an expert on 16th-century Italian drawings and prints, as she explores the work of literary scholar Alessandro Vellutello (b. 1473), whose drawings likely became the basis for the highly influential series of woodcuts illustrating the 1544 edition of “Divine Comedy.” Dr. Eitel-Porter will guide you through Vellutello’s unique vision of Dante’s work — from its unusual emphasis on barren, volcanic terrain to the intricate illustrations of each circle of hell and Purgatory — and examine how the perspective of the comparatively amateur Vellutello varied from those of his more-famous Renaissance contemporaries.
This is the first talk in Cornell’s “Visions of Dante” Study Day, a day-long special event held in conjunction with the Johnson Museum of Art’s “Visions of Dante” exhibition, timed to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. The Vellutello drawings and woodcuts are part of the exhibit, on loan from the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection.
Agenda
9:30-10:30 AM ET: Visualizing Dante in the 16th Century: An Amateur’s Art (Rhoda Eitel-Porter)
10:45-11:45 AM ET: From Etruria to the New World: Cornell’s Copy of the Editio Princeps of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Between Book History, Bibliophilia, and Exegesis (Natale Vacalebre)
1:00-1:45 PM ET: Exhibition Tour (curators Laurent Ferri and Andrew Weislogel)
2:00-3:00 PM ET: Meeting Dante (artist Sandow Birk)
3:15-4:15 PM ET: A Dante Afterlife: LeRoi Jones’s “System of Dante’s Hell” and Derek Walcott’s “Omeros” (Maryemma Graham)
What You'll Learn
- The ways in which Renaissance scholars and artists “saw” Dante’s world
- How a scholar used visual art as a conceptual aid to understand and teach Dante’s complex poem
- How a trained visual artist acted as intermediary to “translate” Vellutello’s amateur drawings into arresting and commercially successful book illustrations
Speaker
Editor, Print Quarterly
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2021-10-16 9:302021-10-16 10:30Visualizing Dante in the 16th CenturyAdd to CalendarFrom its creation, Dante Alighieri’s poetry has inspired the world’s greatest writers, artists, and thinkers. His groundbreaking “Divine Comedy,” completed in 1320, became muse to giants of the Italian Renaissance — among them Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccari — as well as to scholars seeking to illuminate the complex poem through imagery.
Join Rhoda Eitel-Porter, an expert on 16th-century Italian drawings and prints, as she explores the work of literary scholar Alessandro Vellutello (b. 1473), whose drawings likely became the basis for the highly influential series of woodcuts illustrating the 1544 edition of “Divine Comedy.” Dr. Eitel-Porter will guide you through Vellutello’s unique vision of Dante’s work — from its unusual emphasis on barren, volcanic terrain to the intricate illustrations of each circle of hell and Purgatory — and examine how the perspective of the comparatively amateur Vellutello varied from those of his more-famous Renaissance contemporaries.
This is the first talk in Cornell’s “Visions of Dante” Study Day, a day-long special event held in conjunction with the Johnson Museum of Art’s “Visions of Dante” exhibition, timed to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. The Vellutello drawings and woodcuts are part of the exhibit, on loan from the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection.
Agenda
9:30-10:30 AM ET: Visualizing Dante in the 16th Century: An Amateur’s Art (Rhoda Eitel-Porter)
10:45-11:45 AM ET: From Etruria to the New World: Cornell’s Copy of the Editio Princeps of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Between Book History, Bibliophilia, and Exegesis (Natale Vacalebre)
1:00-1:45 PM ET: Exhibition Tour (curators Laurent Ferri and Andrew Weislogel)
2:00-3:00 PM ET: Meeting Dante (artist Sandow Birk)
3:15-4:15 PM ET: A Dante Afterlife: LeRoi Jones’s “System of Dante’s Hell” and Derek Walcott’s “Omeros” (Maryemma Graham)https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K101621/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Join Rhoda Eitel-Porter, an expert on 16th-century Italian drawings and prints, as she explores the work of literary scholar Alessandro Vellutello (b. 1473), whose drawings likely became the basis for the highly influential series of woodcuts illustrating the 1544 edition of “Divine Comedy.” Dr. Eitel-Porter will guide you through Vellutello’s unique vision of Dante’s work — from its unusual emphasis on barren, volcanic terrain to the intricate illustrations of each circle of hell and Purgatory — and examine how the perspective of the comparatively amateur Vellutello varied from those of his more-famous Renaissance contemporaries.
This is the first talk in Cornell’s “Visions of Dante” Study Day, a day-long special event held in conjunction with the Johnson Museum of Art’s “Visions of Dante” exhibition, timed to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. The Vellutello drawings and woodcuts are part of the exhibit, on loan from the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection.
Agenda
9:30-10:30 AM ET: Visualizing Dante in the 16th Century: An Amateur’s Art (Rhoda Eitel-Porter)
10:45-11:45 AM ET: From Etruria to the New World: Cornell’s Copy of the Editio Princeps of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Between Book History, Bibliophilia, and Exegesis (Natale Vacalebre)
1:00-1:45 PM ET: Exhibition Tour (curators Laurent Ferri and Andrew Weislogel)
2:00-3:00 PM ET: Meeting Dante (artist Sandow Birk)
3:15-4:15 PM ET: A Dante Afterlife: LeRoi Jones’s “System of Dante’s Hell” and Derek Walcott’s “Omeros” (Maryemma Graham)https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K101621/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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