Scuderie del Quirinale, major exhibition on Dante's Inferno announced

As part of major initiatives to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, Scuderie del Quirinale President Mario De Simoni has announced a major exhibition to be held at the Roman museum venue starting this fall devoted entirely toInferno.

Entitled precisely Inferno, what will be an extensive exhibition review ofDante’s iconography “in the perhaps unexpected territories of the history of ideas to the point of questioning the reasons for the persistence of such strong concepts as those of sin and punishment, damnation and salvation.”

It will be on view from October 5, 2021 to January 9, 2022, and curated by Jean Clair, art historian, essayist, museum director, and member of the Académie Française. “This is the first time that a major art exhibition has tackled the world of Hell and will do so by recounting its iconographic fortunes from the Middle Ages to the present day,” said De Simoni. "At the moment with 180 works from ten countries. We are seven months away from the opening of the exhibition and negotiations for loans are still ongoing. Works that will accompany the creative and visionary power of Dante’s verses and, as is the Scuderie’s custom, a long and dense program of events that will attempt to connect Dante’s great themes to the complexity of our times will accompany the exhibition. Jean Clair, the supreme art historian and one of the great intellectuals of our time who has continually questioned the themes and nature of nihilism and evil and the possibilities of overcoming them, is curating the project."

The exhibition will illustrate Dante’s journey through the many representations that have taken place in art history, "from the horrific structuring of medieval iconographies to the Renaissance, the Baroque, the torments of Romantic canvases to twentieth-century psychoanalytic visions. There will be two rooms devoted to the transliteration of Hell on earth with madness, war, totalitarianisms. And finally the evocation of the idea of salvation that Dante entrusts to the last verse of the cantica: ’and therefore we came out to see the stars again.’"

It will be a major exhibition of international scope that intends “to recall the universal echo of Dante and his importance for Europe,” concluded the president of the Scuderie del Quirinale.

Scuderie del Quirinale, major exhibition on Dante's Inferno announced

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