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Art and artists of our time (1888)

Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 106

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i THF, REPP-^ ART AND ARTISTS OP OUR TIME. 15 the Francesca da Rimini, wliicli we copy from tlie well-known enf^iavin<i:. Tlic snl)jeft isdrawn from the Fifth Canto of Dantes Inferno. Dante andhisgnide, Virgil, have come tothe circle where the carnal sinners are punished who subject reason to… … PAOLO AND FRANCESCA. FROM THE PAINTING BY ARY SCHEFFER. them, not of rest bnt even of less i)ain. Dante desires to speak to two of these spirits, andat his call they come to where he and Virgil stand on the brink of the great chasm. Inanswer to his questions, the woman tells him that she is that…

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