In 1975 Miquel Barceló in his diaries quoted Dante. Almost thirty years later, in the illustrations you can see here displayed, he interprets his work.

Born in Palma de Mallorca, in his youth Barcelò approaches radical conceptual art through local art collectives. In Barcelona in the early eighties, the artist falls in love with the craft of the painter and begins his individual career. In those years he spends a period in Paris, where he cultivates his passion for books and libraries, but above all for the Louvre museum and for the great classics exhibited there.

Now an established artist, in 2000 he produces a series of Dantean illustrations to accompany the Divine Comedy. A phantasmagorical Dante occupies the title page of the first volume, dedicated to the Inferno, in which stand out the gloomy and portentous polyptych of canto II, the watercolor inspired by Goya that closes canto XXIII and the colossal illustration representing the giants of canto XXXI.