#dante and virgil in hell
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dante and virgil in hell, by william-adolphe bouguereau // the song of achilles, by madeline miller
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:14:35
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
Dante and Virgil is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau painted in 1850. Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (specifically a scene set in the XXX Canto of Hell: Capocchio bitten on the neck by Gianni Schicchi).
This oil on canvas is kept at the Orsay museum in Paris.
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