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[Painting based on "Inferno" from Dante's "Divine Comedy"]
Creator
Gustavo ReigerItalian Photographer · 1860–present
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- 1859
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Photograph of a painting or a fresco based on "Inferno" from Dante Alighieri's epic poem, "Divine Comedy." The work depicts the Gate of Hell, with the Devil enthroned on the lower center area of the image. Various figures fill the scene, including a flying beast with a human head on the upper left corner. In the upper center, a painted inscription from Canto III of the "Divine Comedy" appears above two turrets.
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