UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active 1530s in Florence)

Allegorical Portrait of Dante

c. 1530
Oil on wood, 127 x 120 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

The book in Dante's hand is open at the introduction to Canto XXV of the Paradise.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 16 minutes):
Franz Liszt: Dante-sonata