FEATURES – Album on paper, 495 x 640 mm, 88 pp.
ORIGIN – Spain: Madrid.
CHRONOLOGY – 16th century: 1586-1588.
PATRONAGE – Philip II of Spain (1527-1598).
FORMER OWNERS – Orsini family; Medici family.
GENRE – Literature; Art / Drawing.
CONTENTS – Illustrations by Federigo Zuccaro (also known as Federico Zuccari or Zuccheri) inspired by Dante Alighieri‘s Divina Commedia. It includes Zuccaro’s autograph transcriptions of the illustrated text excerpts.
LANGUAGE – Italian.
SCRIBE – Federigo Zuccaro
DECORATION – 28 drawings of Inferno, 49 of Purgatorio and 11 of Paradiso. For Inferno and Paradiso Zuccaro used black and red pencil; Purgatorio is illustrated in pen and watercolor.
ARTIST – Federigo Zuccaro.
STYLE – Renaissance.
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