the religions of genderism, liberalism, capitalism, liberationism, racism, communism, marxism, modernism, protestantism, materialism, occultism, new ageism, anarchism, and scientism, in no particular order, doubly false Title: Dante and Virgile
Creator Lifespan: 1825 - 1905 Creator Nationality: French Creator Gender: Male Date Created: 1850 Provenance: Acquired in 2011 Physical Dimensions: w2250 x h2810 cm Painter: William-Adolphe Bouguereau Original Title: Dante et Virgile Credit Line: © Musée d'Orsay, dist. RMN / Patrice Schmidt Type: oil on canvas Rights: © Musée d'Orsay, dist. RMN / Patrice Schmidt External Link: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections “This painting was inspired by a short scene from the Inferno, set in the eighth circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters), where Dante, accompanied by Virgil, watches a fight between two damned souls: Capocchio, a heretic and alchemist is attacked and bitten on the neck by Gianni Schicchi who had usurped the identity of a dead man in order to fraudulently claim his inheritance.” External Source: Google Arts & Culture
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