It's the painting the web is abuzz about - but what does it mean
Jonathan Jones
The Guardian
March 18 2009
You recognise some of them, but not all of them. So it is with the 103 famous people in this bizarrely ingenious Taiwanese oil painting, Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante, which has become an online cult. Echoes of classic art seem to spring out from every point - yet they are fiendishly elusive.
Pinning down the exact quotations of famous works is harder than it looks and can tease you just as certainly as trying to identify everyone. For starters, the painting alludes to an 18th-century genre known as the "conversation piece", epitomised by Johann Zoffany's Tribuna of the Uffizi (c 1770s).
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here's a link to a good close-up of the painting
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