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The Divine Comedy: Inferno 8 Murderers, bandits, suicides

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Dante and Virgil pass the Minotaur and move into the seventh circle, where murderers and highwaymen are immersed in boiling blood, and Harpies torment those who took their own lives.

April 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 7 The Furies and Heresy

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After the Furies appear at the gate of Dis, an angel opens the gate, and Dante and Virgil see the tombs containing those guilty of heresy.

April 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 5 Gluttony

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Here, the rain comes down in sheets, with snow and large hailstones. First an encounter with the three-headed monster dog Cerberus, then a chat with an old acquaintance.

March 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pride and Petulance: How one woman almost spared Troy

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The anger of Achilles almost brought the Greek war against Troy to a grinding halt. But is Homer’s account fair, or was there more to it?

April 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Tyger’s eye: William Blake’s role models and peers – Barry, Flaxman, Mortimer, Stothard

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Blake did not exercise his genius and vision in isolation. Here are some paintings by those who influenced him most.

January 7, 2017 General, Painting

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