Sandow Birk’s Illustrations of the Divine Comedy (2004)

“A five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire Divine Comedy into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco.” — Sandow Birk

Like many of the artifacts gathered in Dante Today, Birk’s illustrations are modeled on Gustave Doré’s late 19th century lithographs.

See also Sandow Birk’s animated feature film Dante’s Inferno (2007).

For more on Birk’s illustrations, see Kristina Olson’s 2017 essay in Digital Dante.