The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for artists, musicians, and authors since its appearance in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Works are included here if they have been describ
Dante and Virgil, a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850), which depicts Dante and Virgil in the eighth circle of Hell, observing two damned souls in eternal combat
Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence
Dante appears in Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel Les Proscrits
Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Gates of Hell, Musée Rodin
Purgatorio
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Purgatorio is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso; it was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegorical telling of the climb of Dante u
A page of the Purgatorio at the Laurentian Library
Le Dante, conduit par Virgile, offre des consolations aux âmes des Envieux by Hippolyte Flandrin
Purgatorio, Canto II: Christian souls arrive singing, escorted by an angel
Pia de' Tolomei (La Pia) in a painting by Stefano Ussi, Canto V.