Art For Purgatorio Canto 26

Among the Lustful Sinners

Dante, Virgil, and Statius Meet a Second Group of Lustful Sinners – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

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

Lustful Souls in the Flames – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

A Monk Tries to Lure a Young Man (example of sodomy) – Illuminated Letter – Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana (Mid-14th cent.)

Dante and Virgil meet the Souls of the Lustful – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

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

Dante and Virgil Meet the Souls of the Lustful – Master of the Vitae Imperatorum (1440)

On the Terrace of Lust, among the Lustful Souls – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

Lustful Sinners in the Flames – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

Terrace of the Lustful and Meeting with Guido Guinizzelli – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)

Dante and Guido Guinizelli

Dante Speaks to Guido Gunizelli – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante Talks with Guido Guinizelli – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

On the Terrace of Lust, Dante Speaks with Guido Guinizelli – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)

Dante Speaks with Guido Guinizelli – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)

The Magnanimity of King Lycurgus – Jean-Jacques-Francois le Barbier (1791)

Dante Speaks with Guido Guinizelli – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Dante Speaks with Guido Guinizelli – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)

Dante Talks with Guido Guinizelli, Lustful Sinners Embracing – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)

Guitone d’Arezzo

Fra Guitone d’Arezzo – Minitature, Florence, National Central Library (13th cent.)

Fra Guittone d’Arezzo – French School (19th cent.)

Lustful Sinners Embracing

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

Sexual Sinners Embracing – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

The Lustful Sinners Embracing – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante Speaks with Guido Guinizelli, the Lustful Sinners Embrace – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Meeting of the Sodomites and Heterosexuals – Federico Zuccari (1586)

The Fiery Doom – John Flaxman (1793)

Lustful Sinners Embrace and Kiss – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

Lustful Sinners in the Fires – Casa Massimo – Joseph Anton Koch (1825)

The Lustful Sinners Embrace and Kiss – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Lustful Sinners Embracing – Adolfo De Karolis (1874-1928)

Lustful Sinners Embracing – Alberto Martini (1876-1954)

Dante Continues Speaking with Guido – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Two Crowds of the Lustful – Salvador Dali (mid-20th cent.)

Sodomites, Pasiphae, Caesar

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorah – John Martin (1856)

Sexual Sinners Embracing, the Story of Pasiphae – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Pasiphae Entering the Hollow Cow – Giulio Romano (1499-1546)

Caesar’s Triumph – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Dante and Arnault Daniel

Dante Speaks with Arnault Daniel – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Dante Speaks with Arnault Daniel, the Angel Invites Dante, Virgil, and Statius to Pass Through the Flames – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante Speaks with Arnault Daniel – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Guido Points to Arnault Daniel – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)


The Setting Sun on the Terrace of Lust – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)