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Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture

Jean-Jacques Feuchère’s Dante Meditating on the ‘Divine Comedy’

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Jean-Jacques Feuchère, a French artist (1807-1852), depicted an image of Dante meditating on his literary work, the Divine Comedy (1843). This work is made with “pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper.”    — “Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy” (1843), National Gallery of Art

Isabel Greenberg’s The River of Lost Souls (2013 graphic short story)

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“The river Styx, stinking and sluggish and black as tar runs between the living, breathing world and the Kingdom of the dead. Do you see that tiny little boat? In that boat is my husband. Believe it or not, he’s a God.”    —Isabel Greenberg, “The River of Lost Souls”

The image above is the first panel of a graphic short story produced by artist Isabel Greenberg for The Guardian in 2013. Read the full story here.

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