Many artists have illustrated Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy since it was penned at the beginning of the 14th century — but few people realize that Salvador Dalí was one of them.

Over on Open Culture, Dan Colman describes how the legendary Spanish surrealist was approached by the Italian government in the 1950s to produce a series of pieces to accompany Dante’s epic poem. When Dalí finally finished, he had produced a total of 100 stunning watercolor illustrations.

Hi-resolution copies of the images, not to mention print editions, are hard to come by — but you can browse all 100 of the illustrations here.

[LOCKPORT STREET GALLERY via Open Culture and io9]