6/25/2023 0 Comments The divine comedy paintings![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Delacroix’s painting was used as a reference for the movie “The House That Jack Built”, a psychological horror film directed by Lars von Trier. Bouguereau's skillful use of shading and highlighting brings the figures to life, giving them a sense of weight and presence that draws the viewer in.Īnother interesting fact is that the painter Bouguereau with this masterpiece wanted to surpass another famous author Eugène Delacroix, who earlier painted “The Barque of Dante” based on the same Dante Alighieri's epic poem. The anatomy of the two figures is also impeccable, with every muscle and curve of their bodies rendered in exquisite detail. Capocchio became an alchemist and learned to falsify gold and for this sin was damned.Īnd the second soul is Gianni Schicchi who had usurped the identity of a dead man in order to fraudulently claim his inheritance.īouguereau's use of light and color is particularly striking, with the warm, golden tones of Virgil's cloak contrasting beautifully with the dark, foreboding landscape around them. One of the souls who is bitten on the neck - Capocchio, and he was a friend of Dante in his youth. Dalí’s Illustration for Inferno, 1 from La Divine Comédie, illustrations de Dalí, Paris: Editions d’Art Les Heures Claires, 1963 Woodcut 10 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (27 x 20 cm) Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections (1 image) The dark forest that begins Dante’s journey is reduced here to a few cypress trees. What we see on the foreground – is an internal battle of 2 damned souls on eighths circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters). ![]()
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