July 2019, Rome
Illustrating Dante's Inferno
Each of us in the course are designated three Canti from the Divina Commedia: Inferno. By visiting different cities including Florence and Orvieto and drawing inspiration from numerous fresco, manuscripts and so on, I focused on three to four verses from each canto and created the following atmospheric illustrations for each.
Canto XI (4-6)
Here, the unbearable foul stench
belched from that bottomless abyss
made us draw back behind the slab
Canto XII (100-102)
And with this trusty escort we went on;
skirting the edge of the vermilion boil ‘
from which the boiled cried out with piercing shrieks
Canto XIII (43-45)
So from the broken splinter oozed
blood and words together, I let drop
the twig and stood like one afraid.
