Literature often lit a creative flame in the hearts of artists and composers, and Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy was no exception. Who knew that fictionalizing an afterlife journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso would sear a picture of hell into humanity's imagination for centuries to come? Descend into the fire and brimstone with us as we stoke our curiosities on this week's topic - Dante's Inferno!

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Art:

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) - Map of Hell from Divine Comedy (1485)

Botticelli's Divine Comedy as a Graphic Novel

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) - The Barque of Dante or Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822)

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) - The Gates of Hell (1880-1917) from the Musée d'Orsay

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Music:

Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-77) - Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie (by 1365)

Franz Liszt (1811-86) - Dante Symphony: I. Inferno (1855-56)

Franz Liszt - Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (1849) from Années de Pèlerinage