[Painting based on "Inferno" from Dante's "Divine Comedy"]

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[Painting based on "Inferno" from Dante's "Divine Comedy"]

Creator

Gustavo Reiger

Italian Photographer · 1860–present

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Date
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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