Portrait of Dante Alighieri

Cornelis Galle I|Philips Galle|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

ca. 1595 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

Engraving celebrating Dante. The central roundel includes a large portrait of the poet. A smaller roundel above includes a portrait of Beatrice and a smaller roundel below represents a double portrait of Virgil and Statius. Portraits surrounded by four diagrams in each corner representing Paradise, the Heavens, Jerusalem with Limbo and Hell as well as the Terrestrial Paradise. The inscription at the base of the image boasts of Dante's Florentine origins and his work and dedicates the image to Luigi Alamanni.

Artist

Cornelis Galle I|Philips Galle|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Date

ca. 1595

Medium

Engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928