![]() Fornés knew Dalí personally and has written 20 books on the artist’s life and career. In the remarkable 2016 book, “Dalí-Illustrator,” art scholar Eduard Fornés offers a definitive history of how Dalí’s “Divine Comedy” came to be. So it was decidedly odd when it was announced in 1950 that Dalí-a Spanish Surrealist who had rejected religion in his past-had been chosen to bring to life a work that was so distinctly Italian. Salvador Dalí was an unusual choice to illustrate Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy.”ĭante’s epic poem is considered one of Italy’s national treasures, a work embraced by both Italian cultural institutions and the Roman Catholic Church. ![]() Detail from “The Grim Boatman’s Boat (La barque du nocher 1959-1963). ![]()
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