Inside the Gate of Purgatory
Cantos 10-12: The Terrace of Pride, Wall Carvings, the Angel of Humility, Climbing Upward (drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
Dante and Virgil Reach the Terrace of Pride – Biblioteca Marciana (ca. 1385)
On the Terrace of Pride, the Carving of Trajan and the Widow – Bonino de Boninis (1467)
The Gate, Climbing, the Terrace of Pride, Wall Carvings (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
Passing Through the Gate – Federico Zuccari (1586)
Terrace of Pride – G.G. Macchiavelli (1806)
Inside the Gate of Purgatory – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Carvings on the Wall: The Annunciation
The Annunciation – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
The Annunciation – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Angel of the Annunciation – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
The Annunciation – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
The Annunciation – Fra Angelico (1430)
The Wall Carving of the Annunciation – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
The Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel – Gaudenzio Ferrari (1508)
The Salutation – John Flaxman (1793)
Wall carving of the Annunciation – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
The Carving of The Annunciation – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
The Annunciation – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence (1902)
The Annunciation – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard
Our Lady of the Annunciation – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Carvings on the Wall: David Dancing before the Ark
David Dancing – Michal at Her Window – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
The Ark (with David Dancing) – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Wall Carving of David Dancing with the Ark and Michal Looking on – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
David Dancing with the Ark – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
David and the Ark – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
David Dancing before the Ark – Biblioteca Vaticana, Prideful Sinners Carrying Stones – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
David Dancing before the Ark – Micco Spadaro (ca. 1640)
King David Dances Before the Ark of the Covenant – Pieter van Lint (ca. 1650)
Wall Carving of David Dancing before the Ark – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
The Carving of David Dancing before the Ark – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Carvings on the Wall: Trajan and the Widow
The Widow Pleads with Trajan – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Trajan’s Procession and the Widow – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Trajan and the Widow – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Trajan and the Widow – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
Trajan and the Widow – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Trajan and the Widow – Centro Storico di San Giovanni Valdarno (1430)
Trajan and the Widow – Georg Pencz (ca. 1530)
Trajan and the Widow – Sienese School (ca. 1490)
Pope Gregory the Great – English School – (ca. 1588)
Wall Carving of Trajan and the Widow – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
The Justice of Trajan – Eugène Delacroix (1840)
The Carving of Trajan and the Widow – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Carving of the Widow Stopping Trajan – Gustave Dore (1868)
Carving of the Widow Stopping Trajan (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
The Carving of Trajan and the Widow – Schuler/Bernhard (ca. 1890)
Carvings on the Wall – Tancredi Scarpelli (1932)
General Scenes of the Wall Carvings
The Annunciation, David Dancing before the Ark – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Terrace of Pride, the Wall Carvings – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)
Carvings on the Wall – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (ca. 1380)
Trajan and the Widow, Prideful Sinners Carrying Great Stones – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Terrace of the Proud, Marble Carvings of the Annunciation, King David before the Ark of Covenant, and Trajan and the Poor Widow – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)
The Terrace of Pride and the Wall Carvings – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
Cantos 10-12: The Carvings on the Wall and Ground – Federico Zuccari (1586)
On the Terrace of the Proud, Carvings on the Wall – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
The Carved Wall – William Blake (1824)
Dante and Virgil see the Carvings on the Wall – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Wall Carvings on the Terrace of Pride – Ulisse Rubostini (1920)
Encountering the Prideful Sinners
Dante and Virgil Observe the Prideful Sinners Carrying Heavy Stones – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
The Proud Carrying Heavy Stones – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Prideful Souls Carrying Heavy Stones – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Prideful Souls Carrying Heavy Stones – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (ca. 1380)
Prideful Sinners Carrying Heavy Stones – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Cantos 9-10: Dante Sleeps and Is Carried away by an Eagle, Arrival at the Gate of Purgatory, the Proud Sinners Carrying Heavy Stones – Priamo della Quercia (ca. 1450)
Dante and Virgil Walking with the Prideful Sinners – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Souls of the Proud – Capella di San Brizio – Luca Signorelli (1499)
Prideful Sinners Carrying Great Stones – Capella di San Brizio – Luca-Signorelli (ca. 1499)
Prideful Sinners Carrying Huge Stones – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
Prideful Sinners Carrying Great Stones – William Blake (1824)
A Prideful Sinner Carrying a Great Stone – Joseph Anton Koch (1825)
Dante and Virgil See the Prideful Sinners Carrying Great Stones – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
The Proud Loaded with Stones – Filippo Bigioli (1859)
Prideful Sinners Carrying Great Stones – Franz Adolf von Stürler (ca. 1880)
Prideful Sinners Carrying Heavy Stones – Amos Nattini – (ca. 1928)
A Medieval Corbel (like a Weighted Sinner)
A Corbel (like a Weighted Sinner)
Corbels at the Entrance – Villa Pisani, Stra, Italy