The gallery holds 36 of the 102 watercolours Blake painted to illustrate Dante Alighieri's poem. They were bought in 1918. The story of how the works came to our far-flung Commonwealth outpost is ...

William Blake, “Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell” (between 1824 and 1827), pen, ink, and watercolor, 20.7 x 14.72 inches; The National Gallery of Victoria ...

William Blake, The Vestibule of Hell and the Souls Mustering to Cross the Acheron, c. 1824-27, watercolour on paper, ... Dante Alighieri Italian, 1265 - 1321. FOLLOW. William Blake British, 1757 - ...

When it comes to illustrations of The Divine Comedy, William Blake's stunning series of watercolors, in various stages of completion at the time of his death in 1827, are of course hard to beat ...

William Blake, Dante running from the three beasts, between 1824 and 1827, Pen, ink, and watercolor over pencil, National Gallery of Victoria ... April 2021 “The Divine Comedy” at 700. by Daniel Mark ...

Dante is remembered most for his depiction of hell. ... (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, ... Gustave Doré and William Blake, ...

A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how he helped us “dream outside the sphere”.