Dante and Virgil in Hell
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
A docent's tour of Bouguereau's 1850 Salon painting, showing Dante and Virgil watching the damned Capocchio and Gianni Schicchi struggle in Hell, with a winged demon presiding over them.
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Nymphs and Satyr
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
A docent-led visit to Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr, a large mythological painting exhibited at the 1873 Paris Salon, in which playful nymphs drag a reluctant satyr toward a woodland pond. The account distinguishes what we can see from what the sources establish about its literary source, its comic tradition, and its later life in New York.
Dante and Virgil
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
A gallery guide to Bouguereau's Salon painting of Dante and Virgil in Hell, where the two poets watch a damned soul bite the neck of another while a winged demon hovers above.
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