Many of the surreal illustrations of "Hell's Dictionary" are published in the public domain, and have been highly appreciated just about 200 years since it was published. Colin do Planzi published ...

The fragment is hardly mentioned in the voluminous literature on Dante illustration beyond Vasari's comment, but now on public view again after four centuries, it is clearly important, both in its ...

A few of the illustrations even depict the demons hovering over humans in bedrooms, a sign of how night terrors have long been associated with a demonic presence. Take a look at some of Le Breton ...

A 19th-century illustration of hell in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. Some find it difficult to reconcile their belief in a just, loving God with a doctrine that dooms billions to eternal ...

There is a limited amount of depth in these illustrations, but no true perspective. Hell, for example, is shown as a shallow curved space to indicate that each of its rings is a circle ...

4 11/32 x 6 29/32 in. (11.05 x 17.53 cm.) ...

Whether your sense of hell is literal or metaphorical, the concept predates Christianity, according to the new Penguin Book of Hell. “Despite all our recourse to reason and compassion,” says e ...