Dalí, Dante, and the fever of eternity (opens in new tab)

Salvador Dalí was not the man to knock politely at Dante’s door. He would arrive, rather, dressed for judgment, flirting with damnation, carrying the nerve of a heretic and the discipline of a Renaissance obsessive. Of course, that is precisely why his encounter with *The Divine Comedy* feels so charged. Heaven and hell, in Dalí’s...