Carved Examples of Great Pride and Arrogance in the Pavement
General Images
Example: A Floor Tomb – Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
Examples of Pride Carved in the Ground – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)
Famous Examples of Pride – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
Images of Pride Punished, the Angel at the Foot of Terrace of Envy – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)
Dante among the Proud Sinners Carrying Heavy Stones, Examples of Pride in the Pavement (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
Examples of Pride Carved in the Pavement – William Blake (1824)
Dante and Virgil Explore the Pavement on the Terrace of Pride – Silvio Bicchi(1903)
Lucifer
Dante and Virgil See Examples of Lucifer and King Saul – Medieval Manuscript Illustration
The Fall of the Rebel Angels – Luca Giordano (1660)
William Blake – The Fall of Satan (1805)
The Fall of Lucifer – Gustave Dore (1866)
The Fall of Lucifer (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1866)
Lucifer Fallen – Gustave Dore (1866)
Lucifer and the Serpent – Gustave Dore (1866)
Briareus
Briareus (Hecatoncheires) (Artist Unknown)
Defeated Giants
Fall of the Giants (detail) – Fresco, Palazzo del Te – Giulio Romano (1532)
The Giant Enceladus – Fountain, Gardens of Versailles – Gaspar Mercy de Cambrai (1624-1681)
Nimrod
Nimrod – David Scott (1832)
Niobe
Apollo and Artemis Killing the Niobids – Pierre-Charles Jombert (1772)
Apollo and Diana Attack the Children of Niobe – Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
Saul
Famous Examples of Pride: Lucifer and Saul – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
David and Saul – Ernst Josephson (1878)
The Death of Saul – Ambrosius Francken (1544-1618)
Death of Saul – Yan Dargent (1824-1899)
Arachne
Arachne Being Turned into a Spider by Minerva – Antonio Tempesta (1606)
Arachne Transformed into a Spider – Illustration from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Florence – Luigi Ademollo (1832)
Arachne Turned into a Spider – Gustave Dore (1868)
Arachne Turned into a Spider (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
The Example of Arachne – Domenico Mastroianni – (early-mid-20th cent.)
Arachne – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Rehoboam
Jeroboam and the People Rebel against Rehoboam – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1855)
Eriphyle
Polynices Offers the Cursed Necklace of Harmonia to Eriphyle – Greek Vase
Sennacherib
The Defeat of Sennacherib – Peter Paul Rubens (1614)
Sennacherib’s Army Destroyed – Gustave Dore (1866)
Sennacherib’s Army Destroyed (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1866)
Cyrus
Cyrus The Great – Bronze Relief
Queen Tomyris and the Head of Cyrus – Peter Paul Rubens (1622)
Holofernes
Judith Beheading Holofernes – Artemisia Gentileschi (1611)
Judith Beheading Holofernes – Caravaggio (1622)
Troy
Siege of Troy – Anonymous
General Images of Dante and Virgil on the Carved Pavement
Dante and Virgil Contemplate the Sin of Pride in the Carved Pavement – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Scenes of Pride in the Pavement #1 – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Scenes of Pride in the Pavement #2 – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Scenes of Pride in the Pavement #3 – The Angel of Humility – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Virgil Prepares Dante to See the Carvings on the Pavement – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Dante and Virgil Observe Examples of Pride Punished, the Fall of Lucifer, the Death of Briareo, Aracne Turned into a Spider, Tamiri with Cyrus’ Head – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)
Examples of Pride Carved in the Pavement, the Angel of Humility – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
The Pavement of the Proud – Federico Zuccari (1586)
The Pavement of the Proud – Federico Zuccari (1586)
The Fall of Lucifer – John Flaxman (1793)
Examples of Pride Carved in the Pavement #1 – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
Examples of Pride Carved in the Pavement #2 – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
The Fall of the Angels – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Virgil Shows Dante the Carvings in the Pavement – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Examples of Pride Carved in the Pavement – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)
The Encounter with the Angel of Humility
The Angel of Humility – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
The Angel of Humility Greets Dante and Virgil and Shows Them Way up – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
The Angel Shows Dante and Virgil the Way up – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)
The Angel of Humility – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
The Angel of Humility Shows Dante and Virgil the Staircase That Leads upward – Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (ca. 1385)
Among the Proud Sinners, the Angel of Humility – Bonino de Boninis (1467)
Among the Proud Sinners, the Angel of Humility (colorized) – Bonino de Boninis (1467)
The Angel of Humility – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Images of Pride Punished, the Angel of Humility at the Foot of Terrace of Envy – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)
The Angel of Humility – Federico Zuccari (1586)
Erasing the First P – Federico Zuccari (1586)
The Angel of Humility Shows the Way upward – Artist Unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
The Angel of Humility – Christopher Dall’ Acqua (1734-1787)
The Angel of Humility – G.G. Macchiavelli (1806)
The Angel of Humility – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
Virgil Urges Dante to Be Reverent before the Approaching Angel – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
The Angel Shows the Way upaward and Removes the First P from Dante’s Forehead – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
The Angel of Humility – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)
The Angel of Humility – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard
The Angel of Humility Shows the Way upward – Amos Nattini – (ca. 1915-1939)
Dante Feels His Forehead Where the First P Was Removed – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Dante and Virgil Climb to the Second Level – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Ecstatic Visions – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Dante Climbing the Steps to San Miniato al Monte in Florence – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence (1902)
Church of San Miniato al Monte, Florence