19th Century French illustrator Gustave Dore is responsible for the best known artistic interpretations of Dante’s Divine Comedy. His designs are a result of woodblock engraving and printing, often at amazingly quick speed. His work is prolific and gorgeous, encompassing all three worlds of Dante’s afterlife. His distinctive style can also be seen in Paradise Lost by Milton, and Don Quixote by Cervantes. Here is a small sample of his work.
Angels ferrying saved souls
In the Presence of God
Just as the landscape of Dante’s Purgatory is different from that of Hell, the second…
Sandro Botticelli was a renaissance painter in Florence best known today for his works "The…
The nine Circles of Hell, punishing progressively more serious sins, gives the sinners what they…
Although the first part of the Divine Comedy, Inferno, begins at canto one, the journey…
A devil carrying a soul of the damned in his claws runs toward Dante and…
Dante's Paradise consists of different ascending spheres by holiness, ultimately ending in a vision of…
