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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]
The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), also Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romanticism. [1]
The film is also a spin-off from Dante's Inferno. [citation needed] The game Ultrakill is partially inspired by Dante's Inferno, with the games setting being a Hell divided into distinct layers like in the Divine Comedy. Though some layers, like Limbo and Wrath, share themes with Dante's version of Hell, some, such as Greed, also present novel ...
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Dante and Virgil in Hell by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850. In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as punishment after death.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Dante and Virgil in Hell ; Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Alternative names: William Bouguereau Adolphe-William Bouguereau.