Salvador Dalí, The Logician Devil, 1951, colour woodcut, from the Divine Comedie, published by Les Heures Claires, Paris, 1960 The year 1950 marked the 700 th anniversary of Dante’s birth. To ...

A project years in the making, Armusik is currently painting Italian Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri’s 'Divine Comedy' in 40 panels, each 4 foot by 5 foot. (photo: Eric Armusik / Eric Armusik Art ) ...

The Divine Comedy begins with the poet in a dark wood, apart from the world and himself. By the work’s end, he is in a new place. His gaze, on second glance, appears wistful, even hopeful.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 th anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that ...

The Smithsonian African Art Museum’s newest exhibition invites visitors to descend from heaven, through purgatory and into hell. Spanning all four levels of the museum, “The Divine Comedy ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s ...

The 100 illustrations that surrealistic Spanish painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) created for the Divine Comedy are now on exhibition at the Bund 111 Art Space in Shanghai. The exhibition started ...

Ultimately, through this new trilogy, The Weeknd has crafted a modern interpretation of the journey depicted in Dante's “Divine Comedy,” inviting listeners to reflect on their own experiences ...

An Italian narrative poem, “The Divine Comedy” is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the ...