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Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

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Description <p>In Gustave Dore's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, Gustave Dore reproduces with excellent clarity Dante Alighieri's sublime poetic masterpiece in color plates of The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise; an extraordinarily vivid and imaginative account of the poet's allegorical journey through afterlife. From the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise, Dore's illustrations depict the passion and grandeur of the epic poem in such famous scenes as the embarkation of the souls for hell, Paolo and Francesca, the forest of suicides, Thais the harlot, Bertram de Born holding his severed head aloft, Ugolino, the emergence of Dante and Virgil from hell, the ascent up the mountain, the flight of the eagle, Arachne, the lustful sinners being purged in the seventh circle, the appearance of Beatrice, the planet Mercury, and the first splendors of paradise, Christ on the cross, the stairway of Saturn, the final vision of the Queen of Heaven, and many more.</p>
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Publication date first 2024-09-25
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  • ISBN: 9789465110134 (BB)

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