Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Moreau's Dante's Inferno

Inferno 04
Homer and the Classic Poets 

Inferno 10
Farinata degli Uberti addresses Dante

Inferno 13
Harpies in the Forest of the Suicides 

Inferno 14
The Violent, tortured in the rain of Fire

Inferno 15
Brunetto Latini accosts Dante 

Inferno 19
Dante addresses Pope Nicholas III 


Inferno 26
The Flaming Spirits of the evil Counsellors



Inferno 34
Lucifer, King of Hell

Illustration 32 of Divine Comedy:Inferno by Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

Purgatorio 25

complete and various collections of illustrations of the Divine Comedy are available here:
http://dore.artpassions.net/
http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html

see the excellent site: danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index2.html  




see also from Image and Imagery 2002:

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  1. Unknown21 October 2013 at 00:47

    i think the most haunting and hellish image is of the naked bodies twisted into the tree. it instantly creates a desolate, haunting feel

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