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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Gustave Dore Art Prints :: Gustave Dore Inferno Antique Art Prints :: King Minos Man Serpent, THERE MINOS STANDS, 1870 Wood Engraving

King Minos Man Serpent, THERE MINOS STANDS, 1870 Wood Engraving

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PUBLISHED DATE 1870 LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK
PUBLISHER CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN
ARTIST GUSTAVE DORE
ENGRAVERS n/a
OVERALL SIZE: approx 10 INCHES x 14 1/4 INCHES

CONDITION Excellent condition. The image is clean, clear and sharp with beautiful depth and detail. Blank on Reverse side. On heavy stock. Includes the Descriptive Tissue.This beautiful rare item would look great matted and framed. An art supply store can provide you with a selection of frames for old art treasures.

DANTE'S INFERNO ; In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Minos sits at the entrance to the second circle in the Inferno, which is the beginning of proper Hell. Here, he judges the sins of each soul and assigns it to its rightful punishment by indicating the circle to which it must descend. He does this by circling his tail around his body the appropriate number of times. He can also speak, to clarify the soul's location within the circle indicated by the wrapping of his tail (Inferno V, 4–24; XXVII, 124–127). Dante's unique parable, plumbs the depths of visual and poetic imagination, of infernal suffering, human hope and knowledge, of past, present and future. The Inferno follows the simple Talmudic law of Hell; as the soul sinned, so it is punished - exactly. The landscape of Hell is the largest shared project in imaginative history; it's chief architects include Homer, Virgil, Dante, Bosch, Michelangelo, Goethe and more. Among Christians, it is no longer politically correct to send political enemies, atheists or adherents of other religions to Hell, and "sin" in this post-Freudian age, is more debatable than it ever was. That being said, Hell has been, quite literally, an incredibly fascinating place to visit! Dante envisioned Hell as an inverted, underground cone terraced in descending ledges or circles of narrowing size down to the nethermost well or pit, which holds Cocytus, the frozen lake at the center of the earth. The uppermost vestibule debouches into the river Acheron, which is where Charon the boatman, ferries the two poets (Virgil and Dante), and all other dead souls into Hell. Between Acheron and the river Styx, are Hell's first five circles, all of which, besides the First, punish the incontinent, those who, in life, gave in to their passions.

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SKU	0901K4-P234
Quantity in stock	1 item(s) available
Weight	2.00 0
Price:	US$32.00

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