Analysis of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dante’s crowning achievement, one of the most important works in Western literature and undisputedly the most important poetic text of the European Middle Ages, is the great poem he calls his Comedy, or Commedia (ca. 1307–1321). This seems an odd title for most modern readers, who see little humor in the label QS:Lfr,"Dante et Virgile aux enfers, dit aussi La Barque de Dante". label QS:Len,"Dante and Virgil in Hell, also known as The Barque of Dante". Object type. painting. object_type QS:P31,Q3305213. Genre. genre art. Description. Dante and Virgil in Hell, Painting of Dante's »Divine Comedy, Inferno«, 8. A premier example of her Renaissance-inspired painting is Dante and Virgil in Union Square from about 1932. The hard times of the 1930s created a new egalitarian spirit, and Bishop reflects that energy in the painting, along with her own passionate and optimistic belief in the possibility of upward mobility. Born in 1832, French artist, illustrator, and sculptor Paul Gustave Doré was a master of wood-engraving and most famous for his illustrations in classic literature. Receiving international recognition as a prominent illustrator, the artist produced over 10,000 illustrations throughout his lifetime. This article will take you through the life In a late-sixteenth century illustration by an unknown artist, the eagle's souls take on the eerie aspect of skulls. Francesco Scaramuzza adds a Romantic touch, where Dante soars, eyes closed by sublimity, carried on the raptor's talons. The beatific vision, depicted both by a mid-sixteenth century woodcut and Gustave Doré (1880), capture, in Immediately in front of Dante, pointing to Homer, is Nicolas Poussin, considered the supreme artist of the seventeenth-century French academic tradition ; also standing close to Dante is Raphael. What the painting makes clear is that Dante is on a par with the greats of Antiquity, the Italian Renaissance and seventeenth-century France, a bridge Summary: Canto XVIII. Virgil and Dante find themselves outside the Eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge (“Evil Pouches”). Dante describes the relationship between the circle’s structure and its name: the circle has a wall running along the outside and features a great circular pit at its center; ten evenly spaced ridges run between Introduction. Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy is a famous Medieval Italian epic poem depicting the realms of the afterlife. Dante (who was born in 1265) wrote The Divine Comedy somewhere -As Dante is leaving the Second Zone, Virgil asks for Dante’s cord that he wears as a belt, and one end of the cord is tossed into the ravine filled with dark water.-Dante then watches as a horrible creature rises up before them. -The two descend into the Third Zone, and Virgil stays to speak with the creature and Virgil sends Dante ahead Abandon hope all ye who enter" Dante: The Inferno) Marking: Stamped in blue ink at lower left with collector's mark of A.H. Rouart (Lugt suppl. no 2187a) Alexis Rouart (French); Albert E. McVitty(McVitty Sale 66 - sold for $60.00); Marcel Guiot & Cie (French)(September 1936) YSP0nM.