Dante Sees Beatrice

Dante and Beatrice Meeting – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Dante and Beatrice – Ary Scheffer (1795-1858)

Dante’s First Encounter with Beatrice – Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)

Beatrice – Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Dante Before Beatrice – Carlo Muccioli (1857-1931)

Dante and Beatrice by the Stream – Cristobal Rojas (1889

Dante and Beatrice – Henri-Jean-Guillaume Martin (ca. 1898)

Dante and Beatrice – Salvatore Postiglione (ca. 1906)

The Arrival of Beatrice – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)

Beatrice and Dante – Hendrik Christian Andersen – Bronze Plaque at Vallombrosia Abbey near Florence (ca. 1921)

Meeting with Beatrice – Evelyn Paul (1883-1963)
Beatrice Interrogates and Rebukes Dante

Beatrice Forces Dante to Confess – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Beatrice and Dante Conversing Across the Lethe, Angels Intercede for Dante – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

Beatrice Speaks to Dante from the Chariot – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

Earthly Paradise, Arrival of Beatrice, Dante Confesses His Guilt, Beatrice Reveals Her Face – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)

Beatrice Interrogates Dante – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)

Beatrice Interrogates Dante, Dante Confesses (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

Beatrice Interrogates Dante from the Chariot – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

Dante before Beatrice – Filippo Ricci (ca. 1830)

Dante and Beatrice – Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley (1845)

Beatrice Looks Directly at Dante – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Beatrice Confronts Dante – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)

Dante before Beatrice – Tancredi Scarpelli (1866-1937)
Dante Makes His Confession

Dante’s Confession – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Dante Weeps before Making His Confession – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)

Dante’s Repentance – Salvador Dali (mid-20th cent.)
Dante Faints

Dante Faints after Beatrice’s Rebuke – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Dante Faints – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Dante Is Brought Through the Lethe by Matelda

Dante Is Led by Matelda in Front of Beatrice, and Then to the Lethe – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Dante’s Confession, Matelda Brings Him Through the Lethe to Beatrice – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)

Beatrice Rebukes Dante, Dante Passes Through the Lethe, Standing before the Griffin – Federico Zuccari (1586)

(detail) Beatrice Rebukes Dante, Dante Passes Through the Lethe, Standing before the Griffin – Copy (2) – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Matelda Drings Dante Through the Lethe – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Matelda Brings Dante Through the Lethe – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Dante Is Brought to the Lethe – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante Drinks from the Lethe – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante Drinks from the Lethe, He is Brought before the Griffin by the Virtues – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)

Matelda Takes Dante Through the Lethe – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)

Matelda Takes Dante Through the Lethe – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Matelda Immerses Dante in the Lethe and the Virtues Watch – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Matelda Speaks to Dante from across the Lethe – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

Matelda Brings Dante Through the Lethe – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)

Dante Passes Through the Lethe – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Dante Emerges from the Lethe and the Virtues Dance Around Him – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)

The River Lethe – John Flaxman (1793)

Matelda Takes Dante Through the Lethe – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

Matelda Brings Dante into the Lethe – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Matelda Immerses Dante in the Lethe – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Matelda Takes Dante Through the Lethe – Gustave Dore (1868)

Matelda Takes Dante Through the Lethe (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

Dante Emerges from the Lethe, the Virtues Dancing – Donn P. Crane (1878-1944)

Matelda Immerses Dante in the Lethe – Ezio Anichini (1886-1948)

Matelda Brings Dante Through the Lethe – G.G. Macchiavelli (1896)

Dante Drinking the Waters of the Lethe – Jean Delville (1919)
The Dancing Virtues

The Virtues in the Triumphal Chariot – Illuminated Letter – Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana (ca. 1335)

Dante Is Brought to the Dancing Virtues – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Matelda Brings Dante to the Dancing Virtues – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Dante Is Brought Before the Griffin and Beatrice

Matelda, Stazio, Dante, and Beatrice Observe the Group of Virtues – Medieval Manuscript Illustration

Dante Is Led to Beatrice – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Dante Is Led to Beatrice #2 – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)

Dante Is Presented to Beatrice in front of the Chariot – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)

Dante Kneels before Beatrice Who Sees Christ – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

Dante Is Led by the Virtues to Beatrice – Bodleian-Holkham – (1375)

The Virtues Bring Dante before the Chariot and Beatrice – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

William Blake – Dante Stands before the Griffin (1824)

Dante Is Led to the Griffin – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Dante Is Entranced at the Sight of Beatrice – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

Dante Is Brought to Beatrice – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)