At The World of Dante, art historian Aida Audeh writes:Ĭharacterized by an eclectic mix of Michelangelesque nudes, northern traditions of sublime landscape, and elements of popular culture, Doré’s Dante illustrations were considered among his crowning achievements - a perfect match of the artist’s skill and the poet’s vivid visual imagination. Although he went on to illustrate a great many other literary works, from the Bible to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Doré is perhaps best remembered for his depictions of Dante. Since then, Doré’s Divine Comedy has appeared in hundreds of editions. Hachette published Purgatorio and Paradiso as a single volume in 1868.
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