Tag: Dante
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Friedrich Sturm’s Paolo and Francesca, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 6,300 EUR in November 2022 In the late eighteenth century, a romantic admiration for Dante spread throughout Europe and a whole generation of artists was inspired by his writings. Sturm, like artists such as Ingres before him, chose to illustrate the theme of the famous Canto V of Dante’s Inferno, which relates the last…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible!, With Footnotes – 94
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, KCVO PRA (1853 – 1928) Paolo and Francesca, c. 1894 Oil on canvas 130 × 130 cm (51.2 × 51.2 in) Private Collection Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255–ca. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed…
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