Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici come Orfeo (Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici as Orpheus) c.1537–1539 Oil on panel, 93.7 × 76.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici is shown as the mythological musician…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les étoiles filantes (The shooting stars) 1847–1849 Oil on board, 18.7 x 34.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This purely imaginary subject is unusual among Millet’s works. It refers to Dante‘s ‘Inferno‘ which in one section describes the…
El Greco (1541-1614) Adoración del Nombre de Jesús (The Adoration of the Name of Jesus) late 1570s Oil and egg tempera on pine, 55.1 × 33.8 cm National Gallery, London This picture is closely related to a larger work of the…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) A Soul in Hell probably 1901–1902 Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 87.5 cm De Morgan Collection
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) La discesa di Cristo nel Limbo (The Descent of Christ into Limbo) c.1475–1480 Oil on vellum on panel, 51.8 x 37.3 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) The Last Judgment 1500–1505 Oil on wood, 99 x 117.5 cm Groeningemuseum, Bruges The outside panels.
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Rape of Proserpina 16th–17th century Oil on panel, 43 x 64 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Orphée ramenant Eurydice des enfers (Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld) 1861 Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 137.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. His…