The Underworld is been always interesting for the people. This world and the transition through the life and the death is represented on Ianua Ditis, a particular kind of funeral monuments, called the Gates of Hell in the Neoclassic period. The European artist if XIXth Century, in fact, rediscovered the closed, or half-closed, door as a mysterious gates, introducing people in the Afterlife. Antonio Canova, neoclassic sculptor from Possagno (TV), in 1805 creates the Cenotaph to Maria Cristina of Austria, reinventing this kind of funerary monuments.
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Titolo: | Noctes atque dies patet atri Ianua Ditis (Verg. Aen. 6, 127) | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2019 | |
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Abstract: | The Underworld is been always interesting for the people. This world and the transition through the life and the death is represented on Ianua Ditis, a particular kind of funeral monuments, called the Gates of Hell in the Neoclassic period. The European artist if XIXth Century, in fact, rediscovered the closed, or half-closed, door as a mysterious gates, introducing people in the Afterlife. Antonio Canova, neoclassic sculptor from Possagno (TV), in 1805 creates the Cenotaph to Maria Cristina of Austria, reinventing this kind of funerary monuments. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11567/914976 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.01 - Contributo in atti di convegno |