The Seven Candlesticks

Matelda and the Seven Candlesticks – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Matelda, a Rainbow, and Elders in White Robes – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Matelda Talking with Dante, the Seven Candlesticks – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Matelda Points to the Candesticks – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Seven Candlesticks – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Matelda Tells Dante to Pay Careful Attention to What Is about to Happen – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Dante Calls on the Muses

Mount Helicon in Boeotia, Greece – Sacred to the Muses

Minerva Visits the Muses at Mt. Helicon – Hendrick van Balen the Elder (early 17th-cent.)

The Muse Urania – Louis Tocqué (1696-1772)
The Mystic Procession

The Mystical Procession – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

The Crowned Elders in the Mystic Procession – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

The Four Winged Beasts – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

The Mystic Procession – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

The Mystic Procession All as One – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

The Mystic Procession – Left Side – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

The Mystic Procession – Right Side – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

The Mystical Procession – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Chariot Drawn by a Griffin and Surrounded by the Four Creatures – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Procession Stops in Front of Dante – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

The Elders and the Chariot – Codex Altonensis, Tuscany (1350-1410)

Mystical Procession – Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (14th cent. manuscript)

The Mystic Pageant – Priamo della Quercia (ca. 1450)

The Mystic Procession – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

The Mystic Procession – colored – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

The Earthly Paradise and Triumph of the Church – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)

The Mystic Procession – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)

The Mystic Procession (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

In the Earthly Paradise, Encounter with Matelda, the Mystic Procession (drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

The Mystic Procession, the Lethe (drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

The Twenty-Four Elders – Federico Zuccari (1586)

The Procession of Elders – John Flaxman (1793)

The Mystic Procession – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

The Arrival of the Mystic Procession – William Blake (1824)

The Arrival of the Mystic Procession – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

The Procession of Elders – Gustave Dore – (1868)

The Procession of Elders (colorized) – Gustave Dore – (1868)

Dante Sees the Mystical Procession – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence 1902

The Mystic Procession – Carlo Wostry (1865–1943)

The Mystic Procession – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)

Arrival of the Mystic Procession – Donatella Bartoli (early 21st cent.)

Diagram of the Mystical Procession – Michael Meister
The Virtues

The Dancing Virtues on Either Side of the Chariot – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

The Theological Virtues in the Chariot – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

Faith, Hope, and Love Dancing – Gustave Dore (1868)

Faith, Hope, and Love Dancing (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

Matelda Points to the Virtues – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)