Title

"The Divine Comedy", Inferno: The gluttonous wallow in putrid slush produced by an icy rain

Caption

Amos Nattini (1892-1985), "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Inferno, Canto VI, Circle 3: Gluttony. The gluttonous wallow in putrid slush produced by an icy rain. Dante converses with Ciacco, who predicts the strife in Florence. In the background, Cerberus, the three-headed beast of Hell, flaying spirits.
Private collection.

Info+

In 1921, for Dante Aligheri's 600th anniversary of death, the Istituto Nazionale Dantesco chose Amos Nattini to illustrate The Divine Comedy. The illustrations have been published in 1923.

Date

1923

Credit line

Alfredo Dagli Orti/Photo12

Reference

DGL13A00_468

License type

Rights managed

Available size

123,9Mb (11,1Mb) / 26,7in x 18,0in / 8000 x 5412 (300dpi)

Keywords

Hell Painting Lithograph Illustration Divine Comedy Italy Poetry Middle Ages Literature 1923 Body Nudity Distress Crowd Pile Pain Damned Dead Ground Putrefaction Rotting Walking