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Dante and Virgil in Hell is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. [1] The painting depicts a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy, which narrates a journey through Hell by Dante and his guide Virgil. In the scene the author and his guide are looking on as two ...
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. [1]
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William Bouguereau (1825–1905) studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, as well as in Rome, and was considered a leading French academic painter in the nineteenth century. [3] Legend has it that he searched for a model for the painting’s figures and found them in his first wife, Nelly Monochablon, who posed for the angels, one by one ...
Info Another of Bougereau's works is an FP on en-wp: File:Bouguereau-Linnocence.jpg. Papa Lima Whiskey 10:28, 9 July 2010 (UTC) There's also File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Dante And Virgil In Hell (1850).jpg. But this does a good job at showing a recurring theme in his work - his portrayal of the female form - as well as showing ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Mythological paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (15 P) ... La Danse (Bouguereau) Dante and Virgil; E ...
Gianni Schicchi is depicted fighting Capocchio in William Bougereau's painting Dante and Virgil. Starting from this story, and with much lighter and more pleasant stylistic characters, Giacomo Puccini composed the comic opera Gianni Schicchi, [1] performed in 1918.