The Divine Comedy is a poetic work that has inspired millions of people in Italy and around the world.
700 years after the death of Dante Alighieri, the website DivineComedy.digital aims at celebrating, through a vast collection of artworks, the influence that his work has had on the artistic and cultural heritage of the world.
Divinecomedy.digital is a digital humanities project that collects artworks depicting the narrative world of the Divine Comedy.
This heritage spans seven centuries of art history and represents a summa of the many interpretations that artists and playwrights have given to the Poem, which have contributed to define this famous and mythical imaginary world.
The website, developed by The Visual Agency, provides the users with a unique and holistic experience, as it explores a vast collection of artworks related to Dante Alighieri’s greatest work: the Divine Comedy.
Through an interactive visualization, which maps the complete plot of the Italian poet’s masterpiece, the application creates new ways of exploring the content of the Divine Comedy and its related imagery. Users, therefore, have the possibility to access what is probably the most influential vision of the medieval world, and to observe in an innovative way the interpretations given by artists over the centuries.
