Musée Goya, Castres
Date: 1853
Technique: Oil on canvas, 32 x 41 cm
Showing posts with label Hell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hell. Show all posts
6/4/24
6/3/24
6/2/24
Paul Gustave Doré, Lake Cocytus and the Traitors - Dante's Inferno
Date: 1861
Technique: Woodcut, Sheet: 43 x 31 cm; Plate: 24 x 19 cm
Illustration for Dante's Inferno.
8/1/21
Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, Christ's Descent into Hell
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: Second quarter of 16th century
Technique: Oil on wood, 53.3 x 116.8 cm
6/20/19
8/14/15
Wilhelm Trübner, Dante's Hell (Dantes Hölle)
Date: 1880
Technique: Oil on canvas, 137 x 249 cm
7/11/15
Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Paolo Malatesta et Francesca da Rimini aux enfers
Date: 1883
Technique: Oil on canvas, 400 x 290 cm
Daughter of Guido I da Polenta of Ravenna, Francesca was wedded in or around 1275 to the brave, yet crippled Giovanni Malatesta (also called Gianciotto; "Giovanni the Lame"), son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. The marriage was a political one; Guido had been at war with the Malatesta family, and the marriage of his daughter to Giovanni was a way to solidify the peace that had been negotiated between the Malatesta and the Polenta families. While in Rimini, she fell in love with Giovanni’s younger (and still hale) brother, Paolo. Though Paolo too was married, they managed to carry on an affair for some ten years, until Giovanni ultimately surprised them in Francesca’s bedroom sometime between 1283 and 1286, killing them both.
In the first volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante and Virgil meet Francesca and her lover Paolo in the second circle of hell, reserved for the lustful. Here, the couple is trapped in an eternal whirlwind, doomed to be forever swept through the air just as they allowed themselves to be swept away by their passions. Dante calls out to the lovers, who are compelled to briefly pause before him, and he speaks with Francesca. She obliquely states a few of the details of her life and her death, and Dante, apparently familiar with her story, correctly identifies her by name. He asks her what led to her and Paolo’s damnation, and Francesca’s story strikes such a chord within Dante that he faints out of pity.
4/7/13
John Martin, Fallen Angels in Hell
Date: c. 1841
Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 76 cm
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