These allusions are usually understood as referring to Aristotle’s works, but Dante means them as his own works. Virgil explains that philosophy claims that Nature takes its course from the divine intellect and that man’s art does the same: “quanto pote,/segue, come ‘l maestro fa il discente” (“as far as it can, follows nature as
Medici. Botticelli likely began work on the Dante illustrations in the mid-1480s and finished them in the mid-1490s. Executed during a period of considerable interest in infernal cartography, Botticelli’s Chart of Hell furnishes a panoptic display of the descent made by Dante and Virgil through the “abysmal valley of pain” (Inf1.4.8).
The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), sometimes known as Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting[1] by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and one of the works signalling a shift in the character of narrative painting from Neo-Classicism towards the Romantic movement.
Virgil stays to speak with the beast, sending Dante ahead to explore the zone, inhabited by those who were violent against art (Virgil has earlier denoted them as the Usurers). Dante sees that these souls must sit beneath the rain of fire with purses around their necks; these bear the sinners’ respective family emblems, which each “with
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
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