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title: DIVINE COMEDY - CHARON AND THE DAMNED

subject date: 2013-05-21

caption: DIVINE COMEDY (1321) Inferno, Canto III. ''The demon Charon, with eyes of burning coals/ Beckoning to them, gathers them all:/ He beats with his oar whoever lies down'' (I, III, 109-111). The boat of Charon the psychopomp, infernal ferryman, accompanies the souls as they cross the Acheron, towards their damnation. In the illustration, on the left the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (14 May/13 June 1265 – night between 13 and 14 September 1321) at his desk and on the right the scene described, all enclosed in an allegorical frame representing Paradise, Purgatory and Hell. Chromolithograph from a series of postcards by Egisto Sborgi Editore (detail in FSNgilardi_67129.jpg), Florence circa 1918.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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object name: 25849

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Dieci

licence: RF

subject century: XIV

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 33291

file name: FSNgilardi_25849.jpg

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