Art for Divine Comedy by Dante
Gustave Doré did a series of famous illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, which we study in World Literature, Module 4. Here are a few examples of these highly detailed etchings.
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![Gustave Doré, Canto 26 www.gutenberg.org](https://i0.wp.com/www.excellence-in-literature.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GBCanto26-193x300.jpg?resize=193%2C300&ssl=1)
Gustave Doré
Canto 26, lines 46-49
“The guide, who mark’d
How I did gaze attentive, thus began:
‘Within these ardours are the spirits, each
Swathed in confining fire.’”
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![Gustave Doré, Canto 34 www.gutenberg.org](https://i0.wp.com/www.excellence-in-literature.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GBCanto34-196x300.jpg?resize=196%2C300&ssl=1)
Gustave Doré
Canto 34, lines 127-129
“By that hidden way
My guide and I did enter, to return
To the fair world.”
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