Dante and Virgile | William Bouguereau | 1850 19th Century The woman's reflection

The woman's reflection

Beltrán Masses blends sensuality with melancholy

Turner revolutionized landscape art

Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting

Dante and Virgile | William Bouguereau | 1850 19th Century The woman's reflectionDante and Virgil is an 1850 oil on canvas painting by the French academic painter William Adolphe Bouguereau. It is on display at the Muse d'Orsay in Paris. The painting depicts a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy, which narrates a journey through Hell by Dante and his guide Virgil. In the scene the author and his guide are looking on as two damned souls are entwined in eternal combat. One of the souls is an alchemist and heretic named Capocchio. He is