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Dante's Divine Comedy

Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise as the illustrators imagined them.

La Divina Comedia de Dante · A Divina Comédia de Dante · 17 images

Watercolor of a nude giant leaning from a rocky cliff to set two small figures on the ground, against a dark blue sky and sea.Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of HellWatercolor of a red-robed man crouching on a hillside as a white-robed woman floats above; a lion, a wolf-like beast and a leopard prowl nearby under a sunrise.Dante running from the three beastsPainting of two robed figures in a misty dark landscape, surrounded by nude bodies half-submerged in pale icy water.Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of HellWatercolor of a tall woman in robes standing above a winged griffin, with a pale figure reaching up and swirling colorful forms below.Beatrice Addressing Dante from the CarEtching of two robed figures riding a scaly serpent-bodied monster with a bearded human face and clawed arms, against a cloudy background.Virgil and Dante sitting on the back of Geryon to be transported from the 8th to the 7th cEngraving of six bearded men in period robes around a table with a book, lamp and globe; name panels run along the bottom edge.Six Italian men of letters. Engraving after G. Vasari, 1543.Brown engraving of two hooded figures on a rocky ledge above nude figures sprawled among rocks, with a dark mountain and swirling clouds in the sky.The Circle of the Falsifiers: Dante and Virgil Covering their Noses because of the stEtching of two robed figures on a frozen plain looking down at a head rising from the ice, with half-buried bodies and a dark streaked sky.The Circle of the Traitors; Dante's Foot Striking Bocca degli AbbateEngraving of a dying man in bed with kneeling clergy, angels carrying a soul upward on the left, and flames and tormented figures in hell on the right.Allegorie op het stervenWatercolor of two bearded men in pink and blue clouds reaching toward each other, with a pale nude figure below among radiating rays of light.St Peter and St James with Dante and BeatriceEtching of a devil struggling over a corpse before a robed saint with a halo, angels above in Gothic arches, and mourners in the background.The Struggle Between the Devil and St Francis of Assisi for the Soul of Guido da MontefeltDark painting of two robed figures standing in a boat among nude, struggling bodies in churning water, with a glowing city under a smoky sky.Dante's BarkPale nude woman with flowing hair rises through swirling grey drapery against a dark brown background, drawn in white highlights.Paolo and Francesca da Rimini in HellEtching of an interior: a sleeping man in a chair, a woman in a gown gesturing toward two armed men near a draped archway and a lamp on a table.Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother Lucrezia incite Olimpio Calvetti and Marzio da Fiorani tEtching of winged devils gathered at a table over a large sheet, with two robed laurel-crowned men watching on the right and figures in clouds above.Pinelli etching Virgil and Dante, the plate being examined by monsters who are watched on Loose painted study of a woman in white holding flowers by a stream under blossoming trees, with a kneeling figure in red-brown at right.Study for Dante and MatildaDark painted scene of three women in a garden: one seated with a fan, one in a white dress and feathered hat by a stone pedestal, and one in shadow at left.Hero, Ursula and Beatrice