Dante's Inferno Art is a unique concept art collection based on the first part of The Divine Comedy, Inferno

Since Dante Alighieri wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, between 1302 and 1322 many artists have attempted to visually interprete it through drawings and paintings. However, to this date only one artist has interpreted it correctly according to Italian Dantologists, Sandro Botticelli in the 1480's, over 500 years ago.

On the other hand, the most notorious work was made by Gustave Dore 150 years ago and much later Salvador Dali, just 50 years ago. The art seen here by Dino Di Durante, however, is neither the detailed Dore's lithographs, nor the abstract Dali's paintings. Durante's focus is not only an accurate interpretation of Dante's masterpiece, but also his passion to influence grown-up children so they can have an early understanding of Dante's teaching about life through The Divine Comedy.

Dino Di Durante's visual journey of Dante's Inferno started in 2007, with the idea of making a comic magazine. This idea expanded into a book of illustrations, and later to an animation film, now in its final stages of post- production, titled Dante's Inferno Animated. These 52 unique pieces of art, and 4 more in the works, are also part of a documentary featuring over 30 celebrities, professors and Dantologists (Dantisti) from both the United States and Italy, titled Dante's Inferno Documented, also in its final stages of post- production. Dante's Inferno Animated was screened, as a work-in-progress, in May, 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival in France and in February of 2011 at the Pablo Atchugarry Foundation. Both films are expected to have their world premieres at international film festivals in 2011 and beyond.

We thank the following sponsors for their support, collaboration, and mainly recognition of Dante Alighieri's influence in the arts and world culture as a whole: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mantra Resort, MAXON Computer Inc, Posta del Cangrejo.