Dante's extraordinarily rich visual imagination has inspired artists from manuscript illuminators in the Middle Ages to the present. This gallery is intended to introduce readers to some of the most famous illustrations of the poem.
Below click view for a particular artist's illustrations of the Comedy. Also listed below Dante Portraits and links to other artists.
View: The British Library's Yates Thompson 36 is one of the finest Italian illuminated manuscripts of the Comedy.
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.
View: Alessandro Vellutello was a Lucchese intellectual active in Venice from about 1515.
View: An English sculptor and illustrator, John Flaxman's interest in the arts began at an early age.
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.