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(ANSA) – ROME, JANUARY 1 – On the first day of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Divine Comedy “revives” on the web. As of January 1, all the drawings that illustrate the Poem, made at the end of the 16th century by the painter Federico Zuccari, famous for having frescoed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, are visible online for the first time on the web of the Uffizi. The Uffizi Galleries, which house the entire group of these ‘Dante’ prints (88 in total), open the celebrations by publishing on their website (www.uffizi.it) the virtual exhibition “A riveder le stelle”, with a Didactic apparatus written by Donatella Fratini, curator of the Uffizi drawings from the 16th to 18th centuries. So all the illustrations in the Commedia dello Zuccari have been digitized in high definition and organized in a journey through stages that allows you to admire them for the first time in their entirety and in every detail. The 88 drawings, executed by the painter at the end of the 16th century, constitute the most impressive illustrative group of the Comedy created before the 19th century. Created between 1586 and 1588, during Zuccari’s stay in Spain, the entire collection entered the Uffizi collection in 1738, thanks to the donation of Anna Maria Luisa de ‘Medici, Elettrice Palatina. “Until now these beautiful drawings have been seen by few scholars and exposed to the public only twice and only in part – comments the director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt – now they are published in full and with a didactic-scientific comment on the website of the Uffizi, where from now on they will be freely available. Galleries are truly proud to open the 18th century since the death of the great poet, making this extraordinary collection of graphic art available to all. Precious material not only for those who investigate but also for those who are passionate about Dante’s work, they are interested in delving into it to continue, as Alighieri says, virtue and knowledge. ”(TAKE CARE OF).
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