Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy

Gustave Dor�’s illustrations and Dante’s Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today the artist’s rendering of the poet’s text still determines our vision of the Commedia. Planned by Dor� as early as 1855, the Dante illustrations were the first in a series he referred to as the “chefs-d’oeuvre de la litt�rature.”