Giacomo Berchi (contributor)

Vittorio Tranini; Fresco in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Lugano (1952)

Fresco of Dante by Vittorio Tranini; Basilica del Sacro Cuore, Lugano, Switzerland.

Contributor Giacomo Berchi gives the following description: “A small frame in the right transept of the Basilica, under the mosaic of St. Francis. In it there are a portrait of Dante, deliberately inspired by Doré’s one, into which there is the capital letter ‘N’ of the quote from Par. XI, 106-08: ‘Nel crudo sasso intra Tevere ed Arno / da Cristo prese l’ultimo sigillo / che le sue membra du’anni portarno’. Frescos painted by Vittorio Tranini between 1934 and 1954.”

Contributed by Giacomo Berchi.