Иконография мифологических персонажей «Божественной комедии» Данте в манускриптах XIV–XV веков. Возможная роль и истоки

Актуальные проблемы теории и истории искусства. 2023. № 13. С. 439–454.

Мирошник А. Д., Pozhidaeva A.

The history of illustration of Dante’s Divine Comedy Dante in the 14th–15th centuries  rarely attracts the attention of researchers. Nevertheless, a careful analysis of the manuscripts would make it possible to clarify the process of the separate iconographic schemes’ emergence within the framework of a very specific task: illustrating a text replete with literary devices and references to ancient sources that were often unknown to the authors of the iconographic program. Current study is devoted to the iconography of mythological characters found in Dante’s text and their possible iconographic sources on the material of a number of manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, six of which are fully illustrated (Egerton MS. 943, 1st half of the15th century (c. 1320–1350), The British Library, London; Pal. 313, 1333-1345, The National Central Library, Florence; MS. M. 676, 1345–1355, The Morgan Library, New York; CF.2.16, 1355–1360, The National Library of the Girolamini Oratory, Naples; It.Z.54, last quarter of the 14th century, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice; Yates Thompson MS. 36, 1444–ca. 1450, The British Library, London; Urb. Lat. 365, ca. 1480 The Vatican Library, Vatican); and three partially (Cod. Ital. 1, ca. 1333–1350, The University Library, Budapest; Chantilly 0597, ca. 1330–1340, The Condé Museum, Chantilly; It. 74, 14th century, The National Library, Paris).

Keywords: christian iconography, христианская иконография, "The Divine Comedy", "Божественная комедия"