Dali's hiring for the project became controversial in the Italian Parliament because he was Spanish and not Italian. Dali was initially commissioned by the Italian government to illustrate The Divine Comedy in 1950, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. It is not surprising, then, that Dali was excited by the opportunity to illustrate The Divine Comedy, in which Dante accepts God, as opposed to renouncing the idea of a divine being as Maldoror had done. Accordingly, many of his paintings of the period include representations of the Virgin Mary and the Crucifixion, and his imagery tends to be less macabre than that of his Surrealist period. By the 1950s, Dali had embraced Christianity and his interests had shifted to spirituality and mysticism.
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