Excerpt from The Portraits of Dante Compared With the Measurement of His Skull and ReclassifiedLimited scope of the study - p. 1, Boccaccio's description of Dante pp. 1-2, was Dante bearded and light haired - p. 2, discovery of Dante's bones - p. 3, the reconstruction of the skull from the measurements - p. 4, missing measurements unimportant - p. 5, use Of the skull diagram for checking purposes illustrated with the so-called death-mask - pp. 5, 6, Giotto's Dante, its date and authenticity - pp. 6 - 8, why is Dante painted so young - p. 9, the discovery of Giotto's Dante in 1840 10, Seymour Kirkup's service in making copies before the restoration - pp. 10, 11, the color of the hood wrong in all copies - p. 11, close agreement of skull and Giotto's portrait - p. 11, small in¿uence of Giotto's Dante because not grim enough in character - p. 11, The Palatine Miniature as a copy of Taddeo Gaddi's lost Dante portrait, pp. 11-15, Taddeo might have seen Dante between 1312 and 1321, - p. 15, Taddeo's portrait probably before I330 - p. 16, comparison of Giotto's and Taddeo's portraits - pp. 16, 17, reconstructions of Dante's features from the Skull-plan, very similar to the Palatine - p. 17, in¿uence of T addeo's portrait and its destruction by Vasari - p. 18.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.