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New Book Salon, “Dante, Moses and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf”
New Book Salon, “Dante, Moses and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf”
What does a flying bull with a half moon on its belly in Filippino Lippi’s 1502 painting, the Adoration of the Golden Calf, have in common with Muhammad, as a character of Dante’s Comedy? This is the question that Roberta Morosini tries to answer by following the journey of a legend traveling in the Oriental...