Abstract
AbstractThere has been much recent work studying how medieval programmes of visual arts were designed to inspire penitential action. Picking up from that work, this second chapter sets out a methodology for drawing parallels between such structured viewing and experience of visual art and the ways in which gestural episodes are presented in the Commedia within programmes or itineraries through the architectural space of the poem. The chapter considers Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel, the mosaics of the Baptistery of San Giovanni of Florence, and other programmes of visual art alongside discussions of medieval devotional practices enabled by texts such as The Meditations on the Life of Christ and Dante’s Commedia. If we take the Commedia as a work also to be viewed, then new methodologies for reading texts as visual programmes can emerge from dialogue with visual culture studies.
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