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Art & Dante’s Inferno

Art & Dante’s Inferno. Presentation by Ms. Chapman’s Guthrie High School PreAP English II 2003-2004. www.fondazioneitalianelmondo.com/ LIBRI/DANTE.jpg . http://www.elasere.com/images/Celebres_Fotos/dante.jpg. Dark Wood of Error.

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Art & Dante’s Inferno

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  1. Art & Dante’s Inferno Presentation by Ms. Chapman’s Guthrie High School PreAP English II 2003-2004 www.fondazioneitalianelmondo.com/ LIBRI/DANTE.jpg http://www.elasere.com/images/Celebres_Fotos/dante.jpg

  2. Dark Wood of Error “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I say what wood that was!” Canto I ,Lines 1-4 www.gallery3.net/works/ orman-037.jpg Art by Helen Orman LH

  3. Dante in the Dark Wood “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.” Canto 1 Lines 1-3 Art by Gustav Dore http://www.semakov.com/gallery.cfm?part=6&s=4 CDC

  4. Dante enters Hell “This is the place I told you to expect. Here you shall pass among the fallen people, souls who have lost the good of intellect.” Canto I, Lines 16-18 Art by Botticelli news.bbc.co.uk/.../newsid_1232000/ 1232322.stm C.D.

  5. Dante’s Confrontation With Violence and Ambition “Yet not so much but what I shook with dread at sight of a great Lion that broke upon me raging with hunger, its enormous head held high as if to strike a mortal terror into the very air.” Canto I Lines 43-47 Art by Gustave Dore -http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/frames.html S.D.

  6. Dante Meets Virgil “And as I fell to my soul's ruin, a presence gathered before me on the discolored air, the figure of one who seemed hoarse from long silence.” Canto I, Lines 61-63 Art by D. Semakov www.semakov.com/.../gallery/ art/hires/DD-006.jpg C.D.

  7. Beatrice “Her eyes were kindled from the lamps of Heaven. Her voice reached through me, tender, sweet, and low, An angel’s voice, a music of its own.” Canto II 55-57 Art by Evelyn Paul http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/frames.html S.D.

  8. Virgil and Beatrice “Her eyes were kindled from the lamps of Heaven. Her voice reached through me, tender, sweet, and low. An angel’s voice, a music of its own…” Canto II Lines 55-57 Art by Gustave Dore http://www.semakov.com/gallery.cfm?part=6&s=10 CDC

  9. Gate of Hell “I AM THE WAY INTO THE CITY OF WOE. I AM THE WAY TO A FORSAKEN PEOPLE. I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL SORROW. SACRED JUSTICE MOVED MY ARCHITECT. I WAS RAISED HERE BY DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE, PRIMORDIAL LOVE AND ULTIMATE INTELLECT. ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS TIME CANNOT WEAR WERE MADE BEFORE ME, AND BEYOND TIME I STAND ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE.” –Canto III Lines 1-9 www.semakov.com/.../gallery/ art/hires/DD-006.jpg Art by Dimitri Semakov LH

  10. Better to serve in hell “Such place eternal justice had prepared for those rebellious; here their prison ordained in utter darkness and their portion set as far removed from god and light of heaven as far from the center thrice to th’ utmost pole. O how unlike the place from whence they fell!” Milton’s paradise lost Book 1: lines 71-76 www.virtualmuseum.ca/.../ FR/theme-fr-3-3.html artist:Gustave Dore cb

  11. “Then looking onward I made out a throng assembled on the beach of a wide river, whereupon I turned to him: “Master, I long to know what souls these are and what strange usage makes them eager to cross as they seem to be in this infected light.” Canto III, lines 67-72 Art by Gustave Dore The souls on Charon’s boat google.comitalianart

  12. Charon TheFerryman “Woe to you depraved souls! Bury here and Forever all hope of paradise: I come to lead you to the other shore, into eternal dark, into fire and ice. And you who are living yet, I say begone from these who are dead.” Canto III 81-86 Art by Salvador Dali Salvador Dalí www.dante-2000.de/bilder/ mbild004.jpg

  13. Phlegyas Ferries Dante & Virgil Across The River Styx “This is the land of shadows, of Sleep and drowsy Night; no living bodies can take their passage in the ship of Styx.” http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/frames.html The Aeneid of Virgil Lines 514 - 517 Art by Gustave Dore SD

  14. Dante and Virgil cross the River Styx. “I came to a place stripped bare of every light and roaring on the naked dark like seas wracked by a war of winds.” Canto V, Line 28-30 http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/art/ dore/inferno/08.jpg Art by gustave dore cb

  15. Whirlwind of lovers “Here, there, up, down, they whirl and, whirling, strain with never a hope of hope to comfort them, not of release, but even of less pain” Canto V lines 43-45 Art by William Blake

  16. The Fate of Sin I stood there while my Teacher one by one named the great knights and ladies of dim time; and I was swept by pity and confusion Canto V Circle 2 Lines70-72 Art by Gustave Dore www.churches.com

  17. Paolo and Francesca “As they whirled above he pointed out more than a thousand shades of those torn from the mortal life by love.” Canto V http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=members.tripod.com/preraphs/images/dgrossetti/dantedrawing. Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti RYB

  18. Paolo and Francesca “Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom seized my lover with passion for that sweet body from which I was torn unshriven to my doom.” Canto V, Lines 97-99 Art by Gustave Dore. italian-art.org/.../art/ dore/inferno/27.jpg C.D.

  19. Death and Agony of the Wrathful How many living now, chancellors of wrath, shall come to lie here yet in this pigmire, leaving a curse to be their aftermath! Canto VIII Circle 5 Lines 46-48

  20. The Erinye Belts of greenest hydras wound and wound about their waists, and snakes and horned serpents grew from their heads like matted hair and bound their horrid brows. Canto IX , 37-40 Art by Salvador Dali Salvador Dali www.dante-2000.de/bilder/ mbild004.jpg

  21. The Wrathful “In this dark corner of the morgue of wrath lie Epicurus and his followers, who make the soul share in the body’s death.” Canto X Lines13-15 LH http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/art/dore/inferno/07.jpg Art by Gustave Doré

  22. Hopelessness of the Suicidal And after blood had darkened all the bowl of the wound, it cried again: “Why do you tear me? Is there no pity left in any soul?” Canto XIII Circle 7 Art by Gustave dore • www.churches.com

  23. Ecce Ancilla Domini! “My son” he said, “whoever of this train pauses a moment, must lie a hundred years forbidden to brush off the burning rain. Therefore, go on; I will walk at your hem, and then rejoin my company, which goes mourning eternal loss in eternal flame.” Canto XV Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti RYB http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=members.tripod.com/preraphs/images/dgrossetti/dantedrawing

  24. Virgil Speaks With The Simoniacs “From every mouth a sinner’s legs stuck out as far as the calf. The soles were all ablaze and the joints of the legs quivered and writhed about.” Canto XIX Lines 22-24 Art by Gustave Dore -http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/frames.html S.D.

  25. The Simoniacs From every mouth a sinner’s legs stuck out as far as the calf. The soles were all ablaze and the joints of the legs quivered and writhed about. Canto XIX Lines 23-25 Art by Botticelli http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/images/dan1948a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg071.htm&h=200&w=215&sz=21&tbnid=l7pgUpyjJdQJ:&tbnh=93&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDante%2BInferno%26start%3D100%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN KNW

  26. Dante’s Growth “I rose and made my breath appear more steady than it really was, and I replied: ‘Lead on as it pleases you to go: I am strong and ready.’” –Canto XXIV lines 58-60 www.semakov.com/.../gallery/ art/hires/DD-006.jpg Art by Dimitri Semakov LH

  27. Sinner Becoming A Reptile Of Cadmus and Arethusa be Ovid silent. I have no need to envy him those verses where he makes one a fountain, and one a serpent. Canto XXV Lines 93-95 Art by Gustave Dore http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/images/dan1948a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg071.htm&h=200&w=215&sz=21&tbnid=l7pgUpyjJdQJ:&tbnh=93&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDante%2BInferno%26start%3D100%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN KNW

  28. The Thieves I do not think as many serpents swarm in all the Maremma as he bore on his back from the Haunch to the first sign of our human form. Canto XXV lines 19-21 Art by Gustave Dore http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/art/dore/inferno/21.jpg KNW

  29. Odysseus & Diomedes “Forever round this path Ulysses and Diomede move in such dress, united in pain as once they were in wrath; there they lament the ambush of the Horse which was the door through which the noble seed of the Romans issued from its holy source; there they mourn that for Achilles slain sweet Deidamia weeps even in death; there they recall the Palladium in their pain.” Canto XXVI, 55 - 63 Salvador Dalí www.dante-2000.de/bilder/ mbild004.jpg Art by Salvador Dali

  30. The Descent of the Abyss on Geryon's Back “I mounted the great shoulders of that freak and tried to say ‘Now help me to hold on!’ But my voice clicked in my throat and I could not speak.” Canto XVII Lines 85-57 Art by Gustave dore http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/frames.html S.D.

  31. Flight with Fraud “And then I saw—till then I had but felt it—the course of our down-spiral to the horrors that rose to us from all sides of the pit.” –Canto XVII Lines 118-120 www.stjohnsprep.org/.../ botticelli/inf_17.jpg Art by Sandro Botticelli LH

  32. Image of Cerebrus These regions echo with the triple-throated bark of the giant Cerberus, who crouches, enormous, in a cavern facing them- The Aeneid of Virgil, book 6, lines 550-552 Art by Gareth Long www.ncsu.edu SG

  33. Doomed Souls All together they drew to that grim shore where all must come who lose the fear of God. Weeping and cursing them come for evermore, and demon Charon with eyes like burning coals herds them in, and with a whistling oar flails on the stragglers to his wake of souls. http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/art/dore/inferno/04.jpg

  34. Charon and the Acheron “That ferryman is Charon. And the waves will only carry souls that have a tomb. Before his bones have found their rest, no one may cross the horrid shores and the hoarse waters.” -Aeneid, Book IV Lines 428-431 www.ngv.vic.gov.au/.../blake/ images/ipd00004.jpg William Blake LH

  35. Found “Among them, wandering in that great forest, and with her wound still fresh: Phoenician Dido. . . “Unhappy Dido, then the word I had was true? That you were dead? That you pursued your final moment with the sword?” The Aeneid of Virgil, Book VI http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=members.tripod.com/preraphs/images/dgrossetti RYB Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  36. Bertrand de Born When you return to the world, remember me: I am Bertrand de Born. . . I bear my brain divided from its source within its trunk; and walk here where my evil turns to pain, an eye for an eye to all eternity: thus is the law of Hell observed in me.” Art by Gustave Dore http://www.recsando.it/mm_forum/misteri/Mondo/mismondo.asp Y:GUSTAVE DOREST

  37. Art by William Blake Ninth Circle of Hell And leaving him, I saw a thousand faces discolored so by cold, I shudder yet and always will when I think of those frozen places. As we approached the center of all weight, where I went shivering in eternal shad, whether it was my will, or chance, or fate, I cannot say, but as I trailed my Guide among those heads, my foot struck violently against the face of one -Canto XXXII lines 70-78 Www.bc.edu/.../blakes_inferno31_ephialtes.htm SG

  38. Ugolino and Ruggieri As a famished man chews crust-So the one sinner sank his teeth into the other’s nape. • Canto XXXII lines 127-8 • Art by Beuchereau http://zzx.shangdu.com/artchina_art/world_art/Bouguereau_William/page_01.htm BB

  39. DantePonders “I mourned among those rocks, and I mourn again when memory returns to what I saw: and more than usually I curb the strain of my genius, lest stray from virtues course; so if some star, or a better thing, grant me merit, may I not find the gift for remorse.” –Canto XXVI Lines 19-24 http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/art/dore/inferno/03.jpg Art by Gustave Doré LH

  40. The Path “Climb here, but first test it to see if it will hold your weight.” Canto XXIV Lines 29-30 Art by Gustave Dore

  41. The Fallen Angel “The mother of mankind, what time his pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels.” John Milton’s Paradise Lost Book 1 lines 1-4. Art by Botticelli http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/art/d/duccio/buoninse/maesta/predel_v/pre_v_c1.jpg

  42. Dante’s Satan “I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath: imagine for yourself what I became, deprived at once of both my life and death. The Emperor of the Universe of Pain…”-Canto XXXIV Lines 25-28 jade.ccccd.edu/.../Dante/ BottInf34.jpg Art by Botticelli LH

  43. Milton’s Lucifer Art by Gustave Dore “Above them all th’ archangel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime.” –Milton, Paradise Lost, Book1 http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/art/dore/inferno/29.jpg LH

  44. Rebel Angels The mother of mankind, what time his pride had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host of rebel angels…- Milton’s: Paradise Lost, Book 1 www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/milton SG

  45. Angels of Hell "So numberless were those bad Angels seen,Hovering on wing, under the cope of Hell." -John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 344-5 Art by Gustave Dore

  46. Character of Sin Darkened so, yet shone above them all th’archangel; but his face deep scars of thunder and intrenched, and care sat on his faded cheek, but under brows of dauntless courage, and considerate pride waiting revenge. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 • www.spaightwoodgalleries.com

  47. Lucifer “He above the rest in shape and gesture proudly eminent stood like a tower.” John Milton: Paradise Lost Book I Lines 55-57. Art by Gustave dore SD -http://italian-art.org/divinecomedy/frames.html

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