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Ary Scheffer | Dante and Beatrice | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Beatrice Dante, Dante And Beatrice, Austin Osman Spare, Gabriels Inferno, Divina Commedia, August Sander, Alfred Stevens, Boston Museums, John Everett Millais

Beatrice, the Italian poet Dante’s beloved, serves as his guide through Paradise in his epic poem, The Divine Comedy (1321). The verses from the poem that Scheffer illustrates are written on the frame and translate as follows: “And, of a sudden, meseemed that day was added / unto day, as though he who hath the power, / had adorned heaven with a second sun. Beatrice was standing with her eyes all fixed / upon the eternal wheels, and I fixed my sight / removed from there above, on her.”

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Dante E Beatrice, Dante And Beatrice, Pre Raphaelite Art, Albert Bierstadt, Arthur Rackham, Dante Alighieri, Italian Painters, Pre Raphaelite, Victorian Art

This is the first of the series The Summa in Verse. One of the tragedies of modern education is that many people have read Dante’s Inferno, but few have ascended to the heights of the rest of that great and unified work, The Divine Comedy. Interestingly enough, this unnatural division happened to another of my favorite

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