# 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. The miniature of the Canto IX shows the city of Florence with the famous cathedral at its centre. From one of its towers, a devil announces the offences of the Powerful of this world. On the left, Dante is lifted in the air by Beatrice and beholds the heroine of love, Cunizza of Treviso, who appears in an aura of light. 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]()