Dante and Virgil in Hell
painting by Bouguereau
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depictions of Hell
- In Ten Depictions of Hell: Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Here Bouguereau depicts a scene from the eighth circle of hell, Fraud. At the center, two naked men fight each other. One, identified as Gianni Schicchi, who was sent to hell for impersonating a recently deceased Florentine aristocrat, has a greenish tint to his skin, and the other, Capocchio,…
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