Same subject
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Amos Nattini
Title
"The Divine Comedy", Inferno: The Forest of Suicides (detail)
Caption
Amos Nattini (1892-1985), "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Inferno, Canto XIII, Circle 7: Violence. 2nd Ring : Against Self. The souls of the people who attempted or committed suicide are trasnformed into thorny and gnarled trees. Lano da Siena and Jacopo Sant' Andrea are chased through the woods by ferocious dogs.
Detail of Dante and Virgil in the middle of the forest.
Private collection.
Info+
In 1921, for Dante Aligheri's 600th anniversary of death, the Istituto Nazionale Dantesco chose Amos Nattini to illustrate The Divine Comedy. The illustrations have been published in 1923.
Date
1923
Credit line
Alfredo Dagli Orti/Photo12
Reference
DGL13A00_476
License type
Rights managed
Available size
145,5Mb (12,3Mb) / 26,7in x 21,2in / 8000 x 6356 (300dpi)