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The Barque of Dante (1822) by Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix.<\/em><\/p>\n More infernal visions. Depictions of Hell aren’t exactly recent but the 19th century saw an increase in Dantean themes, helped, no doubt, by the Romantic taste for violent drama. There are many more such paintings, especially of the doomed lovers Paolo and Francesca whose plight is almost an artistic sub-genre. I’ve avoided the popular depictions by William Blake and Gustave Dor\u00e9 although the latter is represented below by a painting you don’t often see.<\/p>\n Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.<\/em><\/p>\n Dante and Virgil at the Entrance to Hell (1857) by Edgar Degas.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dante and Virgil (1859) by Camille Corot.<\/em><\/p>\n Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell (1861) by Gustave Dor\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n Dante and Virgil in Hell (date?) by Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me.<\/em><\/p>\n The Gates of Hell (1885\u20131917) by Auguste Rodin.<\/em><\/p>\n Gateway to Hell (1900) by Alfred Kubin.<\/em><\/p>\n Inferno (1908) by Franz Stuck.<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } The Barque of Dante (1822) by Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix. More infernal visions. Depictions of Hell aren’t exactly recent but the 19th century saw an increase in Dantean themes, helped, no doubt, by the Romantic taste for violent drama. There are many more such paintings, especially of the doomed lovers Paolo and Francesca whose plight is almost … Continue reading “Inferni”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,31],"tags":[1592,1380,7361,7251,1598,1454,593,7362,164,756,7360],"class_list":["post-16856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-religion","tag-alfred-kubin","tag-auguste-rodin","tag-camille-corot","tag-edgar-degas","tag-eugene-delacroix","tag-franz-stuck","tag-gustave-dore","tag-jean-leon-gerome","tag-tom-phillips","tag-william-blake","tag-william-adolphe-bouguereau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-inferni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"inferno03.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/inferno03.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Mirko Racki’s Inferno<\/a>
\n\u2022 Albert Goodwin\u2019s fantasies<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Lachman\u2019s Inferno<\/a>
\n\u2022 Maps of the Inferno<\/a>
\n\u2022 A TV Dante by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway<\/a>
\n\u2022 The last circle of the Inferno<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"