Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
Summoning the Realm of Pain is an album released by the band Havok in 2000. The art for the album was The Erinnys, by the artist Gustave Doré. This illustration was for Canto 9 of the Inferno.
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Obscurae Hiemis Mysteria was an album released on cassette in 1999 by the Italian band, Adonais. The art featured on the cassette was Gustave Doré’s illustration of Canto 9 of the Inferno, The Erinnys.
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The metal band Purgation released their album, Realm of the Dead, in 2000 with Gustave Doré’s illustration, The Schismatics – Mahomet, as the album art. The illustration is from Canto 18 of the Inferno.
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In 2009 metal artist , Brente Engler, released the album Svart vitenskap with a Gustave Doré illustration as the cover art. The illustration used was The Avaricious from canto 20 of Purgatorio.
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Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa
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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.
