Portrait of Dante Alighieri
After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish
Published by Philips Galle Netherlandish
Cornelis Galle I Netherlandish
Not on view
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.
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