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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) “Dante and Virgil” (1850) Oil on canvas Academicism Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
This painting was inspired by a short scene from the Dante’s “Inferno,” set in the eighth circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters), where Dante, accompanied by Virgil, watches a fight between two damned souls: Capocchio, a heretic and alchemist is attacked and bitten on the neck by Gianni Schicchi who had usurped the identity of a dead man in order to fraudulently claim his inheritance.