Gustave Dore Illustrations Of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Posted by grrenth on 8th January, 2013 ... less than a minute read
Antaeus-Descent To The Last Circle – But lightly in the abyss, which swallows up / Judas with Lucifer, he put us down (Inf. XXVI, 142, 143)The Eagle – Terrible as the lightning he descended, / And snatched me upward even to the fire (Purg. IX, 29 30)Arachne – O mad Arachne! so I thee beheld / E’en then half spider (Purg. XII, 43, 44)Apocalyptic Procession – The four and twenty elders, two by two, / Came on incoronate with flower-de-lice (purge. XXIX, 83, 84)The Whore And The Giant – Upright beside her I beheld a giant; / And ever and anon they kissed each other (Purg. XXXII, 152, 153)
