Saturday, July 05, 2008

Giovanni Stradano - Illustrations For Dante's Inferno, 1587

Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 9


Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 17


Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 22


Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 25


Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 28


Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 34

Scroll down through this Wikipedia collection to see most of the illustations from Stradano's Inferno series dating back to 1587.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Aeron, Stradano is also known as Jan Van der Straet, see my comment to the Philip Galle print after Stradano that you posted 2-20-07.
The Stradano of the devil in the globe is very similar to the print by Galle that you posted 5-10-08.
And you posted a St Anthony by Galle after Stradano / Straet on 11-23-07.
Paul Rumsey.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for these Aeron, it is nice to see these large, a few years ago I bought a big book on Stradano, (the most that I have ever spent on a book!) - but the repros are small, and the one of the Devil in the globe is tiny, AND in black and white.
Paul Rumsey.

Aeron said...

Hi Paul, thanks for connecting the dots with these previous posts, I wonder if the devil in the globe image has been repeated anywhere else? And I was surprised to find such large copies of these online, always nice to find big versions of artworks like these that have so many interesting details to pour over.