Dante and Virgil Meet Pier della Vigna | Gustave Doré | 1861

Dante and Virgil stand among trees whose trunks and branches take on the shapes of suffering bodies. One poet holds a broken twig as they face Pier della Vigna, encountered in the forest of the thirteenth canto of the Inferno. Harpies occupy the foreground and cling to the trees around them. Doré separates the upright, robed travellers from the tangled woodland through controlled light and closely worked line, making the forest itself the visible substance of its inhabitants’ punishment.

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