The First Nightfall in Purgatory
Aurora, Goddess of the Morning and Tithonus, Prince of Troy – Francesco de Mura (18th cent.)
The Constellation of Scorpio
The First Night – Gustave Dore (1868)
The First Night (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
The Great Eagle
Dante’s Dream of the Eagle, the Gate of Purgatory – Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1485)
Rape of Ganimede – Antonio-Correggio (1489-1534)
Dante Is Snatched up by an Eagle in His Dream – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
Dante’s Dream – John Flaxman (1793)
Dante Dreams of Being Snatched up by an Eagle – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Dante Dreams That He Is Snatched up by a Great Eagle – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
In a Dream, Dante is Carried upward by an Eagle (Lucia) (Gustave Dore) – (1868)
In a Dream, Dante Is Carried upward by an Eagle (Lucia) (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
Dante Dreaming – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence (1902)
Dante Is Taken up in a Dream by the Eagle – Domenico Mastroianni (early-mid-20th cent.)
Lucia
The Eagle of Grace – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Dante Follows Virgil as Evening Falls – Medieval Manuscript Illustration (Guido da Pisa?) (ca. 1330)
Dante Falls Asleep – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Dante’s Dream – The Fire and the Eagle – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Dante Falls Asleep in the Valley of the Princes – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Dante Dreams of the Eagle – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
The Eagle Swoops down on Dante to Carry Him up to the Gate – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Dante’s Cream – Carried up by St. Lucia (Eagle) – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)
Dante’s Dream, the Eagle Brings Him to the Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (ca. 1380)
Dante Is Transported to the Gate of Purgatory – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Cantos 9-10: Dante Sleeps and Is Carried away by an Eagle, Arrival at the Gate of Purgatory, the Proud Sinners Carrying Heavy Stones – Priamo della Quercia (ca. 1450)
Lucia Brings the Sleeping Dante to the Gate of Purgatory, Dante at the Gate – Bonino de Boninis (1467)
Dante Sleeps, Lucia Takes Him up higher, the Angel at the Gate Carves the 7 Ps on His Forehead – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
Dante’s Dream – Federico Zuccari (1586)
Lucia and the Eagle – Filippo Bigioli (1798-1878)
Dante’s Dream – G.G. Macchiavelli (1806)
Dante Falls Asleep – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
Lucia Carries Dante upward – Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850)
Lucia Comes to Carry the Sleeping Dante upward – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
Lucia Brings Dante to the Gate of Purgatory while He Sleeps – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Lucia Carrying Dante upward – William Blake (1824)
Dante Dreams of the Great Eagle – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Lucia Offers to Carry Dante upward – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Dante Recalls Passing Through the Sun Unharmed – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Lucia and Dante – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard
At the Gate of Purgatory
The Angel at the Gate of Purgatory – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Dante Awakens from His Dream – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Arrival at the Gate of Purgatory – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Virgil Speaks with Sordello while Dante Speaks with the Guardian Angel in front of the Gate of Purgatory – Palatine Manuscript 313 – Biblioteca Nazionale Firenze (ca. 1340)
At the Gate of Purgatory – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Arrival at the Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Angel at the Gate of Purgatory – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
The Angel at the Gate – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (1380)
At the Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (ca. 1380)
The Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteca Marciana (ca. 1385)
Dante at the Gate of Purgatory – Codice Miniato da Simone Camaldolese (1398)
Dante with the Angel at the Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
At the Gate of Purgatory (drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
The Gate of Purgatory – Federico Zuccari (1586)
The Gate of Purgatorio – John Flaxman (1793)
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – Filippo Bigioli (1798-1878)
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – Joseph Anton Koch (ca. 1810)
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – William Blake (1824)
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – Joseph Anton Koch (ca. 1825)
Dante and Virgil Approach the Angel at the Gate of Purgatory – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
At the Gate of Purgatory – Gustave Dore (1868)
At the Gate of Purgatory (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – Stürler-Baudran (ca. 1870)
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – Milosz Kotarbinski (ca. 1890)
Dante at the Gate of Purgatory – Bela Čikoš Sesija (1897)
The Angel at the Gate of Purgatory – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)
The Angel at the Gate – Early 20th cent. Postcard
At the Gate of Purgatory – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard
Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Purgatory – Ezio Anichini (ca. 1921)
Dante at the Gate of Purgatory – Amos Nattini (1923)
Carving the Ps on Dante’s Forehead
The Angel Carves the Ps on Dante’s Forehead – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
The Angel Inscribes the 7 Ps on Dante’s Forehead – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
The Angel Carving the 7 Ps, Passing Through the Gate – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1368)
At the Gate of Purgatory, the Angel Carves the 7 Ps onto Dante’s Forehead – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
The Angel at the Gate of Purgatory Carves the 7 Ps in Dante’s Forehead – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
The Angel Carves the seven Ps on Dante’s Forehead – William Blake (1824)
The Angel Reminds Dante to Remove the Ps When He Climbs the Mountain – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
The Entrance to Purgatory – Milos Kotarbinski – European School (ca. 1900)
Passing Through the Gate
The Angel Opens the Gate of Purgatory – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1340)
Passing Through the Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Dante and Virgil Pass Through the Gate of Purgatory – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
The Angel at the Gate of Purgatory – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Dante and Virgil Enter Through the Gate of Purgatory – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)