Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy is a celebrated series of neoclassical outline engravings by John Flaxman depicting scenes from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book illustration series
series of engravings
artForm book illustration
artHistoricalSignificance early landmark of neoclassical illustration
artisticStyle outline style
associatedWith Romantic-era book production
basedOnWorkBy Dante Alighieri
commissionedFor publication of Dante’s Divine Comedy
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator John Flaxman
creatorArtMovement Neoclassicism
creatorNationality British
creatorOccupation draughtsman
sculptor
depicts Divine Comedy
Inferno
Paradiso
Purgatorio
depictsCharacter Beatrice
surface form: Beatrice (Divine Comedy)

Dante (protagonist)
surface form: Dante Alighieri (character)

Virgil (Divine Comedy)
depictsEvent Dante’s journey through the afterlife
genre neoclassical art
hasInfluenced 19th-century book illustration
later Dante illustrators
hasPart Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Illustrations to Dante’s Inferno

Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Illustrations to Dante’s Paradiso

Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Illustrations to Dante’s Purgatorio
influencedBy classical antiquity
languageOfAccompanyingText English
movement Neoclassicism
notableFor influential Dante iconography
linear outline style
publicationMedium print
relatedWork Illustrations to Homer’s Iliad
surface form: Illustrations to Homer’s Iliad (John Flaxman)

Illustrations to Homer’s Odyssey
surface form: Illustrations to Homer’s Odyssey (John Flaxman)
subjectMatter Christian eschatology
afterlife
heaven
hell
purgatory
technique engraving
visualFormat black-and-white line engravings

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John Flaxman notableWork Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy
Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy hasPart Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Illustrations to Dante’s Inferno
Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy hasPart Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Illustrations to Dante’s Purgatorio
Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy hasPart Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Illustrations to Dante’s Paradiso