Dante Curses the She-Wolf of Avarice
(left to right) The Leopard of Fraud, The Lion of Pride, and the She-Wolf of Avarice – Priamo della Quercia (ca 1450)
Examples of Generosity: Mary, Fabricius, St. Nicholas
St. Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem – James Tissot (1836-1902)
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus
St. Nicholas Giving Dowries to Three Poor Girls – Bicci di Lorenzo (1373-1452)
The Encounter With Hugh Capet
Coronation of Hugh Capet – Late 13th cent. Manuscript Illustration
Encounter with Hugh Capet – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Encounter with Hugh Capet – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Dante Speaks with Hugh Capet – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Dante Speaks with Hugh Capet, Souls Singing – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Hugh Capet Speaks to Dante and Virgil – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)
Hugh Capet Speaks with Dante – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
Dante Speaks with Hugh Capet – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)
Dante Speaks with Hugh Capet – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Dante and Virgil on the Terrace of Avarice and Prodigality, Talking with Pope Adrian V, and with Hugh Capet – Priamo della Quercia (ca 1450)
Dante Speaks with Hugh Capet – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
Dante Talks to Hugh Capet – Federico Zuccari (1586)
Encounter with Hugh Capet – Artist Unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
Dante Talks with Hugh Capet – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
Hugh Capet – Charles de Steuben (1837)
Dante Speaks with Hugh Capet – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Hugh Capet – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)
Hugh Capet Talks to Dante – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence 1902
Among the Avaricious Sinners, Hugh Capet – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)
Hugh Capet References the Attack on Pope Boniface VIII by the Henchmen of Philip IV
William of Nogaret and Sciarra Colonna Confront Boniface VIII – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence 1902
The Famous “Slap” of Pope Boniface VIII by Sciarra Colonna – Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1883)
Pope Boniface VIII – Andrea Gastaldi (1875)
More Avaricious Sinners
An Old Woman Steals from a Beggar – Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana Carta 149r – Medieval Illuminated Letter
The Avaricious and Prodigal Sinners – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
More Avaricious Sinners on the Ground – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
On the Terrace of Avarice – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Penance of Avaricious and Prodigal Sinners, Meeting with Hugh Capet – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)
The Region of Avarice – John Flaxman (1793)
Dante’s Apostrophe against Avarice – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Among the Souls of the Avaricious – Gustave Dore (1868)
Among the Souls of the Avaricious (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
The Avaricious – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Examples of Avarice
Pygmalion of Tyre
King Midas
The Stoning of Achan – Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)
The Death of Sapphira – Nicolas Poussin (1652)
The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple – Eugene Delecroix (1854)
Hecuba Blinds Polymestor – Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665-1747)
The Death of Crassus – Michael Burghers (1653-1727)
The Earthquake
The Earthquake – John Flaxman (1793)
Dante and Virgil Feel the Great Earthquake – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)