This wood engraving by Salvador Dalí is part of his monumental illustrated edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, created between 1951 and 1964. The complete suite includes 100 engravings, one for each canto, based on Dalí’s original watercolours and engraved using color blocks by Raymond Jacquet under Dalí’s supervision.
This particular engraving, Purgatory 7: Princes of the Flowered Valley, depicts the poet Sordello offering moral guidance to Dante at sunset. Dalí’s surreal visual language and symbolic forms infuse Dante’s spiritual journey with renewed psychological depth and intensity.