Portrait of dante alighieri; a bust portrait of dante within an inscribed oval at centre, crowned with laurels and holding a book; above, a portrait of beatrice crowned with laurels within a roundel, flanked by a diagram of the paradiso on the left and a celestial diagram on the right; below, a double portrait of virgil crowned with laurels, within a roundel, flanked by the inferno on the left and a diagram of the earthly paradise on the right; the whole within a frame ornamented with cherubs and grotesques. Date: between 1591 and 1612. Dimensions: Height: 269 mm (trimmed); Width: 201 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Dante. Collection: British Museum.
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