This is the face of Hell. Well, kind of of. Scientists have rebuilt a depiction of what Dante Alighieri, the Italian ...

In the ancient refectory of the Franciscan monastery (now the museum) attached to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, there is a fragment of a Hell fresco (fig ... clearly derived from Dante's ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) ...