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Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo

1851

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The story

Francesca da Rimini was forced into a political marriage with Paolo's brother, who caught the two lovers embracing and killed them both. Scheffer paints the moment from Dante's Inferno when Dante and Virgil meet the pair in Hell, damned for their adultery.

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Object details

Title: Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo
Artist: Ary Scheffer
Date: 1851
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit line: Image source clevelandart.org. License CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0).
Object number: EFA.0283
Original image: 3000 × 2246 px
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Ary Scheffer. Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo. 1851. Cleveland Museum of Art. Image source clevelandart.org. License CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0283/