Tag: Friedrich Sturm
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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…