La Comedia provides a rich, high resolution, viewing experience, and open access to Botticelli's Illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy, enhanced with annotations that link Botticelli's illustration to Dante's Comedy, both in his language and those of the viewer.
At present, La Comedia is entirely client-side-rendered with OpenSeaDragon, and a set of DeepZoom files, described by JSON. I am looking for a good way to host this large (4GiB) and numbered (~60,000 files) fileset freely for others to set up their own instances, but until then you should visit my instance at https://davidgumberg.github.io/lacomedia/
But otherwise,
bun run build
and start any static http server in the repo directory, for example
python -m http.server
- Nearly all of the illustrations come from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which has generously donated their images to the Public Domain with the Creative Commons PDM 1.0, and made available online.
- Those illustrations not available through the SMB, namely the diagram of Inferno, Inferno I, Inferno IX through XVI, and Purgatorio I1 come from facsimiles produced for the 1896 printing of 'Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina Commedia' and are in the Public Domain in the United States due to their age.
Footnotes
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Purgatorio I is in the SMB's collection but without an available image at present. ↩