Art For Purgatorio Canto 28

Two Angels’ Heads – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

The Earthly Paradise – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius in the Terrestrial Paradise – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 – Italian School (ca. 1385)

In the Forest of Eden – Italian School (14th cent.)

In the Earthly Paradise, Encounter with Matelda – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

Earthly Paradise, Matelda and Dante Beside Lethe – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)

In the Earthly Paradise (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

The Earthly Paradise (drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

Dante in the Earthly Paradise – Christopher Dall’ Acqua (1734-1787)

Canto 28 – Dante, Virgil, and Statius in the Earthly Paradise – Gustave Dore (1868)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius in the Earthly Paradise (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

The Pineta – Ravenna – Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Matelda Walking Along the Lethe – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence (1902)

The Divine Forest – Salvador Dali (mid-20th cent.)

The Abduction of Proserpine – Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

The Abduction of Proserpine – Niccolo del Abbate (1560)

Venus and Cupid – Pierre Maximilien Delafontaine (1777-1860)

Hero and Leander – Karl Theodor von Piloty (1826-1886)

The Hellespont with Sestos and Abydos

Xerxes’ Pontoon Bridge across the Hellespont

The Apparition of Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Matelda Picking Flowers – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Matelda – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Encounter with Matelda – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius with Matelda – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Encounter with Matelda – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Talking with Matelda – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

The Encounter with Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Dante Meets Matelda at the Lethe – Italian School (Unknown Artist, 14th cent.)

Dante meets Matelda – Unknown Artist, Padua (15th cent.)

Dante, Virgil, and Statius in the Earthly Paradise, They Encounter Matelda – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)

The Encounter with Matelda – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

Dante and Matelda – Federico Zuccari (1586)

The Encounter with Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Artist Unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)

Dante and Virgil along the Bank of Lethe – Artist Unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)

Matelda – John Flaxman (1793)

Dante Speaks with Matelda across the Lethe – Filippo Bigioli (1798-1878)

Dante Meets Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

The Encounter with Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

The Encounter with Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Matelda Moves toward Dante – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Matelda Encourages Dante to Ask Her Questions – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Matelda Tells Dante That This Is the Site of Original Human Innocence – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Matelda (Stained Glass) – Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan (Artist Unknown, 19th cent.)

Dante’s Vision of Matelda Gathering Flowers – Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ca.1855)

Matelda Gathering Flowers – Gustave Dore (1868)

Matelda Gathering Flowers (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

Dante Meets Matelda – Karl Schönbrunner (1870)

Dante Meets Matelda – Nicolo Barabino (ca. 1880)

Dante Meets Matelda – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)

Dante Turns Back toward Virgil and Statius – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence (1902)

Matelda – George Dunlop Leslie (1835–1921)

Matelda – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard

The Encounter with Matelda – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard

Dante, Virgil, and Matelda – Salvatore Postiglione (1861-1906)

Dante and Matelda – Bela Čikoš Sesija (1904)

Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)

Matelda – Woodcut – Ebba Holm (1929)

The Encounter with Matelda in the Earthly Paradise – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)

The Encounter with Matelda – Tancredi Scarpelli (1932)

Matelda Explains the Origin of the Wind and Rivers – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Matelda Explains the Two Rivers, Lethe and Eunoe – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)