1822. It was present, too, in the Dante illustrations by Flaxman, which all artists knew and in which, as in the Scheffer, Dante and Virgil are observers of the principal scene. With Delacroix's lifelong sense of identification with Dante, it is inconceivable for him not to have carefully considered his conception of the protagonist for a painting
Canto V: Summary: Dante and Virgil descended into the second circle of Hell, where the demon Minos, a conoisseur of sin, assigns each guilty soul its rightful place: after hearing what the soul has to say, he wraps his tail around his body, and the number of times the tail wraps around is the number of the circle where the sinner must go. Minos
Analysis. Dante and Virgil arrive at the gate of hell. Above the gate, there is an inscription on the lintel. The inscription says that this is the way to the city of desolation and eternal sorrow. It says that God, moved by justice, made the gate and tells all those who pass through it to abandon all hope. Virgil comforts the scared Dante and
Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) William-Adolphe Bouguereau The image depicts a scene from Inferno, a classical poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 1300’s in which Dante is led through the levels of Hell by the dead poet Virgil.
Dante and Virgil in Hell, Eugène Delacroix 1822, Louvre, Paris. In comparison with Virgil, Ovid plays a less obvious but equally important part in Dante’s Inferno . Given Alighieri’s extensive education, and similar experience of exile, it comes as no surprise that Ovid exerts so much influence on the later Italian’s writing.
Summary. As they walk, Virgil warns Dante to be careful. One soul asks Dante about his living body, but before he can respond, he watches two groups of penitents kiss quickly as they meet, moving opposite directions, and continue on. Those moving away from Dante cry out “Sodom and Gomorrah!”; those moving with Dante bring to mind Pasiphae
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