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behold your heart: Dante Biennial: Inspired by Dante Alighieri

Past exhibition
9 March - 28 April 2024 London
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behold your heart: Dante Biennial, Inspired by Dante Alighieri

Few writers have had such a profound influence upon Western visual culture as Florentine poet and visionary storyteller Dante Alighieri.


His epic narrative poem, The Divine Comedy, has inspired artists almost since the time of its completion in 1320: from Giovanni di Paolo and Sandro Botticelli, through William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to Robert Rauschenberg and Sidney Nolan.

 

Dante’s life, with its record of passion and love for his ideal Beatrice, and its travails of injustice and exile, has also proved a rich source of images; and his distinctive profile has been recorded by artists from Giotto to Tom Phillips and beyond.


His life and writings continue to inspire artists to this day.

 

Following our exhibition Inferno in 2022, the first of the gallery's biennial exhibitions inspired by the life and writings of Dante, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is proud to present behold your heart, the second of such Dante-inspired exhibitions.

 

Behold your heart brings together works inspired by two of Dante's poems: La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy.

 

The exhibition includes works by Emma Haworth, Henry Holiday, John Holcomb, Barbara Macfarlane, Alice Macdonald, Sidney Nolan, Tom Philips, Ed Ruscha, Phil Shaw, Hepzibah Swinford, and Tobias Till.

  • Dante Biennial Exhibition Catalogue
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Works
  • Emma Haworth, Inferno, 2014
    Emma Haworth, Inferno, 2014
  • Emma Haworth, Paradiso, 2014
    Emma Haworth, Paradiso, 2014
  • John Holcomb, Beatrice & Dante, 2024
    John Holcomb, Beatrice & Dante, 2024
  • John Holcomb, Lavender Dante, 2024
    John Holcomb, Lavender Dante, 2024
  • John Holcomb, Pink Dante, 2024
    John Holcomb, Pink Dante, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Dante Imagines Himself Lost in a Dark Wood, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Dante Imagines Himself Lost in a Dark Wood, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Virgil Rescues and Guides Dante, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Virgil Rescues and Guides Dante, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, They Walk to the Gate of Hell, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, They Walk to the Gate of Hell, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Charon Ferries the Dead Over the River Acheron, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Charon Ferries the Dead Over the River Acheron, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Minos Judges the Dead, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Minos Judges the Dead, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Carnal Sinners Are Blown Around by Every Gust of Wind, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Carnal Sinners Are Blown Around by Every Gust of Wind, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Francesca Da Rimini and Her Lover Paulo Reveal Themselves to Dante, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Francesca Da Rimini and Her Lover Paulo Reveal Themselves to Dante, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Circle of The Gluttons Is Guarded by the Three Headed Monster Cerbeus, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Circle of The Gluttons Is Guarded by the Three Headed Monster Cerbeus, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Gluttons Are Tortured by Eternal Rain, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Gluttons Are Tortured by Eternal Rain, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Pluto Guards the Misers and the Spendthrifts, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Pluto Guards the Misers and the Spendthrifts, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Misers and the Spendthrifts Are Condemned to Roll Great Bags of Gold for Eternity, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Misers and the Spendthrifts Are Condemned to Roll Great Bags of Gold for Eternity, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Phleguyus Ferries Dante and Virgil Accross the Stygyan Swamp Where the Slothfull and the Wrathful Are Immersed, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Phleguyus Ferries Dante and Virgil Accross the Stygyan Swamp Where the Slothfull and the Wrathful Are Immersed, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Dante Covers His Eyes, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Dante Covers His Eyes, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Heretics Are Buried in Pits of Fire, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Heretics Are Buried in Pits of Fire, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Suicides Are Turned Into Shrunken Gnarled Trees While Harpies Pluck at the Trees, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Suicides Are Turned Into Shrunken Gnarled Trees While Harpies Pluck at the Trees, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Peter Vigna Tells His Story, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Peter Vigna Tells His Story, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Blasphemers Are Stricken by A Rain of Fire Eternally Falling Upon Them, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Blasphemers Are Stricken by A Rain of Fire Eternally Falling Upon Them, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Monster Geryon Takes Virgil and Dante to the Next Circle, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Monster Geryon Takes Virgil and Dante to the Next Circle, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Hypocrites Are Compelled to Wear Great Heavy Cloaks That Look Gold but Inside Are Lead, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Hypocrites Are Compelled to Wear Great Heavy Cloaks That Look Gold but Inside Are Lead, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Sowers of Discord and Promoters of Dissention Are Maimed by Demons, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Sowers of Discord and Promoters of Dissention Are Maimed by Demons, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Forgers, Falsifiers Alchemists and Counterfeiters Are Changed Into the Insane, Lepers and Diseased, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Forgers, Falsifiers Alchemists and Counterfeiters Are Changed Into the Insane, Lepers and Diseased, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Anteanus the Giant Takes Them to the Next Circle, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Anteanus the Giant Takes Them to the Next Circle, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Traitors to Their Own Country Buried in Ice, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Traitors to Their Own Country Buried in Ice, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, Lucifer, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, Lucifer, 2024
  • Alice Macdonald, The Journey Underground, 2024
    Alice Macdonald, The Journey Underground, 2024
  • Barbara Macfarlane, Centro de la Terra, 2024
    Barbara Macfarlane, Centro de la Terra, 2024
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno l, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno l, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno ll, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno ll, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno Vll, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno Vll, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno VI, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno VI, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno III, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno III, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno IV, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno IV, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno VIII, 1967
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno VIII, 1967
  • Sidney Nolan, Inferno lX, n.d.
    Sidney Nolan, Inferno lX, n.d.
  • Tom Phillips, Canto XXXI/3: King Kong, 2024
    Tom Phillips, Canto XXXI/3: King Kong, 2024
  • Edward Ruscha, Inferno, 1990
    Edward Ruscha, Inferno, 1990
  • Conceptual colorful bookshelf print based off of The Divine Comedy by Dante by acclaimed British artist Phil Shaw.
    Phil Shaw, The Divine Comedy, 2022
  • Hepzibah Swinford, Beatrice Entering the Heavenly Realms, 2023
    Hepzibah Swinford, Beatrice Entering the Heavenly Realms, 2023
  • Tobias Till, Inferno, 2017
    Tobias Till, Inferno, 2017
  • Tobias Till, Paradiso, 2018
    Tobias Till, Paradiso, 2018
Installation Views
  • L1030155
  • L1030345
  • L1030131
  • L1030143
  • L1030341
  • L1030131
Events
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Related artists

  • Emma Haworth

    Emma Haworth

  • Colorful painting by John Holcomb of man wearing a cowboy hat, available at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

    John Holcomb

  • Barbara Macfarlane

    Barbara Macfarlane

  • A collage of various nude figures with distorted faces against a multicoloured gradient background by artist Sidney Nolan.

    Sidney Nolan

  • A bookshelf artwork by British digital-printmaker Professor Phil Shaw, available at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery: rebecca hossack, rebecca hossack art gallery, aboriginal art, australian art, indigenous art, australian aboriginal art, outsider art, Mer

    Phil Shaw

  • A painting by artist Hepzibah Swinford, represented by Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

    Hepzibah Swinford

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