Ricardo Wiesse, Dante contempla la Trinidad (2007)

The Peruvian artist Ricardo Wiesse created a visual rendering of Paradiso 33.115-145 entitled Dante contempla la Trinidad in 2007. The artwork was then subject of the analysis of Professor Jorge Wiesse Rebagliati in a bilingual (Spanish-Italian) edition, published by Aipsa Edizioni in 2017. The book went on to receive the Premio internazionale d’italianistica “La cultura italiana nel mondo” in 2018.

In the book, Wiesse Rebagliati describes the difficulty of categorizing the art object: “no es una pintura, aunque tampoco podría califcarse como escultura. De la pintura, tiene la bidimensionalidad de la fgura central; de la escultura, la tridimensionalidad” (26). In his submission to Dante Today, Wiesse Rebagliati describes his own method as follows: “the book adopts perspectives from pictorial evaluation, Dante studies, and the connections found with the previous works of the renowned Peruvian artist.” The book’s cover, displayed above, gives a sense of the piece.

Contributed by Jorge Wiesse Rebagliati (Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru)