Stradanus (Giovanni Stradano) (1523-1605)
By this name is known the Flemish painter Jan van der Straet. Stradanus was a mannerist artist active mainly in 16th century Florence. In 1587, he was commissioned to paint a series of scenes of the Inferno.
This is Stradanus's illustration of Canto 8, in which the wrathful and slothful are punished. Dante and Virgil are crossing the Styx with the help of the boatman Phlegyas, and Filippo Argenti is interrupting the poets.
The Prodigal and the Miserly. (Canto 7)
Cantos 14-16, in which those violent against God are punished.
Count Ugolino, Archbishop Ruggieri, Tower of Hunger. (Canto 33)
William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
French academic painter.
Cantos 29-30, in which Falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, imposters) are punished. Capocchio, a heretic and alchemist, is attacked and bitten on the neck by Gianni Schicchi, who had usurped the identity of a dead man to fraudulently claim his inheritance.
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Canto 3, Gate of Hell and its inscriptions at the top. Blue and red inside of the gate is ice and fire, you can see hills that represent different circles of hell.
Canto 5, Lustful, Whirlwind of Lovers. If you look carefully, you can see that Dante has already fainted.
Canto 19, Simonists. This picture depicts Pope Nicholas III.
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