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Dante's Inferno
Illustrations

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Description

These are a series of graphic images illustrating the vivid descriptions of Hell from Dante's Inferno. Images are high-quality JPEG images and range in size from 90-200 K in size. The thumbnail images below are reduced in size from the original by about one-sixth.

Thumbnails

Cerberus
Cerberus (Three Headed Dog)
Charon
Charon (Ferryman of the Dead) on River Styx
Devil
Three Headed Devil Devouring Souls
Gargoyle
Stone Gargoyle with Red Eyes on Rock
Gates of Hell
Gates of Hell with "Abandon Ye All Hope" Text
Minotaur
Minotaur
Medusa
Nude Medusa with Wings
Ninth Circle
Map of Ninth Circle of Hell with Labelled Sinners
Map of Hell
Diagram of Hell with Downward Spiral Path

Original Course Information

Instructor: Marlene Soulsby, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State Worthington-Scranton

Year: 1997

Other Courses: These images can be used for courses on medieval culture, the history of the Italian Renaissance or classical mythology.

License and Download

This MTO item can be used royalty-free under the following conditions. See the MTO Item Open Source License for complete terms.

Download Link

All the images are compressed in a .zip file. Once you download the file, double-click on the .zip file to extract the graphics.
Note: This file size is 920 KB and may take some time to download on slower connections.

Download Images (dante.zip - 920 KB)

 

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Last Update: January 19, 2007