Year 1850 Location Private collection | Created 1850 Media Canvas, Paint, Oil paint | |
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Dimensions 281 cm × 225 cm (111 in × 89 in) Periods Neoclassicism, Academic art Similar William-Adolphe Bouguereau artwork, Oil paintings | ||
Dante and Virgil is a 1850 oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is presently on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The painting depicts Dante and Virgil looking on as two damned souls are entwined in combat. One of the souls is an alchemist and heretic named Capocchio. In this depiction Capocchio is being bitten on the neck by Gianni Schicchi who had used fraud to claim another man's inheritance.
Dante and virgil in hell
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