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Images from Dante's inferno- The Seventh Circle of Hell
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The Seventh Circle of hell-
The Violent; the Tyrants; Suicides; the rain of fire; The River Phlegethon

Medieval Dore, suicides Blake, Capaneus
Botticelli, suicides Dali, the Wood and the Suicide Blake, The Wood of the Self-Murderers
Dore, suicides  Botticelli, sodomites Dali, sodomites
Botticelli, usurers  Blake, the statue of Time Botticelli, Phlegethon
 Duncan, the River Phlegethon Luca Signorelli Blake, suicides

Next> Geryon & other mythological creatures from the Seventh Circle

More of this feature:

A Vision of Hell
A Gallery of illustrations for Dante Alighieri's Inferno, from Gustav Dore, William Blake, Sandro Botticelli, and other artists.

Related Resources:

The Inferno
Part three of Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth longfellow. A complete illustrated e-text from the Alternative Religions Library.

From Jennifer Emick,
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