Gallery

Below click view for a particular artist's illustrations of the Comedy. Also listed below Dante Portraits and links to other artists.

Yates Thompson 36

View: The British Library's Yates Thompson 36 is one of the finest Italian illuminated manuscripts of the Comedy.

Sandro Botticelli (1444-45 – 1510)

View: Though Botticelli now enjoys a world-wide reputation as perhaps the most famous early Renaissance artist, his paintings were highly esteemed for only about a quarter century during his lifetime.

Alessandro Vellutello (b.1473, death date unknown)

View: Alessandro Vellutello was a Lucchese intellectual active in Venice from about 1515.

John Flaxman (1755 – 1826)

View: An English sculptor and illustrator, John Flaxman's interest in the arts began at an early age.

Gustave Doré's (1832 – 1883)

View: His illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today, nearly 150 years after their initial publication, the artist's rendering of the poet's text still determines our vision of the Commedia.

Inf.5 illustrations

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Inf.33 illustrations

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Dante portraits

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Links to other artists