# Dante: Divina Commedia [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIOVANNI DI PAOLO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Yates Thompson Ms. 36\), 365 x 263 mm ## Commentary Dante: Divina Commedia 1440s Manuscript \(Yates Thompson Ms. 36\), 365 x 263 mm British Library, London Several remarkable illustrated Dante manuscripts exist. To the codex in the British Library, London, Giovanni di Paolo created the magnificent pictures for the Paradiso section. In the miniature of Canto VIII, on the right Beatrice leads Dante to the next circle of Paradise. On the left is Venus, whom men once worshipped 'in their ancient error'. Some <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/v/vecchiet/zinitial.html'\)" href="/html/v/vecchiet/zinitial.html">initials</a> in this manuscript are attributed to the Sienese fresco painter Vecchietta. ## Related artworks - [A Miracle by St Nicholas of Tolentino]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Dante: Divina Commedia]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()