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Mœbius Illustrates Dante’s Paradiso — openculture.com

Salvador Dalí, Gustave Doré, Alberto Martini, Sandro Botticelli, the earlier and less-recognized Priamo della Quercia and Giovanni di Paolo — all of these artists have tried their hand at illustrating Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. We have, in turn, featured all their efforts, each of a strikingly different sensibility and aesthetic interpretation of the harrowing journey out of the mortal realm and into the underworld described by this much-studied, much-translated, and just plain much-read 14th-century text. But none of those artists, despite the richness of their visions, spoke directly to the late 20th and early 21st century. For a truly modern Divine Comedy, behold the work of Jean Giraud, better known as Mœbius.

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