Visual Arts
- Sandro Botticelli made the most famous set of illustrations during the Renaissance for a manuscript of the Divine Comedy commissioned by Lorenzo Pierfrancesco de' Medici; Botticelli also designed a series of illustrations for the 1481 edition of the poem. Another interesting series was done by Stradanus.
- John Flaxman's illustrations were influential across Europe in the Eighteenth century because of their radically minimalist style.
- Eugène Delacroix made his name with The Barque of Dante (1822), a painting depicting Dante and Virgil crossing the river Styx.
- Before his death in 1827, William Blake, the English poet and painter, planned and executed several watercolour illustrations to the Divine Comedy, including The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides. Though he did not finish the series before his death, they remain a highly powerful visual interpretation of the poem.
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau, the prolific 19th century academic artist, painted "Dante And Virgil In Hell" in 1850.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah (1855) references Dante's dream in Purgatorio XXVII.
- Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian British paintings relating to Dante include: Dante and Beatrice (1884) by Henry Holiday; Dante's Dream (1871) and Beata Beatrix (1872), both by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
- Gustave Doré made the most famous illustrations in the 19th century.
- Franz von Bayros, mainly known for his erotic drawings, illustrated a 1921 edition.
- Salvador Dalí made a series of prints for the Comedy in 1950-51 .
- Jennifer Strange's collection of drawings and sculpture titled Inspired by Dante; an artist's journey through the Divine Comedy is a contemporary collection of works that have been exhibited in the United States and Italy. Online image gallery with text, translation and commentary.
- British artist Tom Phillips illustrated his own translation of the Inferno, published in 1985, with four illustrations per canto.
- British artist Guy Denning's on line Dante project follows on from his exhibition of his Inferno paintings in Bologna in 2011.
- Dante's Inferno 60-piece art collection (2012) by Dino di Durante.
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