Art For Purgatorio Canto 15

Dante and Virgil Come to the Terrace of Wrath

Entering the Terrace of Anger – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Example of Wrath – Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana – Medieval Illumination

Virgil Speaks to Dante of Envy and Charity – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)

At the Terrace of Wrath – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

Ascent to the Terrace of Wrath, the Angel of Peace, Examples of Meekness – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)

Passage to the Third Cornice – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Virgil Tells Dante He Will Get Used to Seeing the Bright Angels – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

The Angel of Mercy

The Angel of Charity – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

The Angel of Mercy – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

The Angel of Mercy – Artist Unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)

Dante is Blinded by the Angel’s Bright Light – Christopher Dall’ Acqua (ca. 1768)

The Guiding Angel – John Flaxman (1793)

The Angel of Mercy – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

The Angel of Mercy – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

The Angel Shows the Stairway to the Terrace of Wrath – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Dante is Blinded by the Angel’s Brightness – Stürler/Baudran ca. 1880

Dante Is Blinded by the Angel’s Brightness – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)

The Angel of Mercy – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)

Diagram of Dante’s Comments on the Brightness of the Angel as It Struck His Eyes

The Ecstatic Visions

Dante’s Ecstatic Visions – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Mary, the Stoning of Stephen, Wrathful Sinners in the Smoke – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Dante’s Three Visions – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Dante Offers to Tell Virgil What He Saw in His Visions – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

The Vision of Mary

Examples of Meekness – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Dante’s Vision of Mary and Joseph Finding Jesus in the Temple – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Mary (and Joseph) Finds Jesus in the Temple – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Mary and Joseph Find Jesus in the Temple – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Dante sees Mary and Joseph Finding Jesus in the Temple – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple – William Holman Hunt (1860)

The Vision of Pisistratus

Dante’s Vision of Pisistratus and His Wife – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 13430)

Dante’s Vision of Pisistratus – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Head of Pisistratus – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Dante sees Pisistratus and His Wife – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

The Vision of St. Stephen

St. Stephen – Giotto (1320-25)

The Stoning of St. Stephen – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Vision of the Stoning of St. Stephen – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante’s Ecstatic Visions, the Stoning of St. Stephen – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

The Stoning of St. Stephen – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Stoning of St. Stephen – Rembrandt (1625)

The Stoning of St. Stephen – Charles Thévenin (1829)

Dante Sees the Stoning of St. Stephen – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Martyrdom of St. Stephen – Gustave Dore (1866)

Dante’s Vision of the Stoning of Stephen – Gustave Dore (1868)

Dante’s Vision of the Stoning of Stephen (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

Stoning of St. Stephen – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)

Dante Blinded by the Late Afternoon Sun

Dante Blinded by the Late Afternoon Sun – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)