Art For Purgatorio Canto 25

The Sun Moving into Taurus

Dante and Virgil Climb to the Terrace of Lust, Remarks about the Zodiac – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

The Sun in Taurus – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Meleager

Meleager (sitting) and Atalanta after the Boar Hunt – Fresco at Pompeii

Althaea, Mother of Meleager, Rekindles the Log – Pietro Antonio Novelli, 1729

Statius Explains Human Generation

Dante Asks How the Souls of the Gluttons Could Be So Thin – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Statius Explains Human Generation and the Formation of Shades – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Statius’ Lecture on Embryology and the Formation of the Shade – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)

Statius Explains Human Generation and the Generation of Shades – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Statius Speaks about Human Generation – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

Illustration of Dante’s Theory of Human Generation Using da Vinci ‘s “Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman” (1492)

Statius Explains the Nature of Human Generation and the Generation of the Shade – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)

Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

Clotho – John Melhuish Strudwick (1849-1937)

Atropos

The Wall of Flames and the Narrow Path

The Wall of Flames

The Narrow Path Near the Flames on the Terrace of Lust – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

Arrival at the Terrace of the Lustful – Christopher Dall’ Acqua (1734-1787)

Arrival on the Terrace of Lust – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)

The Narrow Path along the Flames – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)

Among the Lustful Sinners

Lustful Sinners Singing the hymn, Summae Deus Clementiae – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius Observe the Lustful Sinners – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

The Souls of the Lustful Purged by the Fire – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Among the Lustful Sinners – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius Look upon the Lustful Sinners – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Arrival at the Terrace of Lust – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Ascent toward the Terrace of Lust – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice urbinate latino 365 (1481)

Ascent to the Terrace of the Lustful, the Penance of the Lustful – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)

Arrival at the Terrace of Lust, Lustful Sinners in the Flames, Passing Through the Flames, Sleeping on the Stairs, Virgil crowns Dante (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

The Lustful – Federico Zuccari (1586)

The Carnal – John Flaxman (1793)

The Terrace of Lust and the Wall of Flames – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius Ascend to the Terrace of Lust – Gustave Dore (1868)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius Ascend to the Terrace of Lust (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

On the Terrace of Lust – Gustave Dore – (1868)

On the Terrace of Lust (colorized) – Gustave Dore – (1868)

Lustful Sinners in the Flames – Gustave Dore – (1868)

Lustful Sinners in the Flames (colorized) – Gustave Dore – (1868)

Lustful Sinners in the Flames – Carlo Worsty (1865-1943)

Lustful Sinners in the Flames – Ezio Anichini (1886-1948)

Arrival at the Terrace of Lust, Sinners in the Flames – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)

Lustful Sinners in the Flames – Tancredi Scarpelli (1932)

Sinners in the Flames – Tancredi Scarpelli (1932)

The Lustful – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)

Examples of Chastity

The Annunciation – Fra Angelico (1427)

Diana of Versailles (1st cent. CE)

Diana in the Forest – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence (1902)

Callisto Turned into a Bear – Johann Wilhelm Baur (1639)

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