- “Dante and Virgil” is an oil on canvas painting by the French academic artist, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, from 1850.
- Order a Dante et Virgile au Enfers (Dante and Virgil in Hell) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau Reproduction.
- 6 Dante and Virgil, 1850 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau – WikiArt. 7 Dante And Virgil In Hell (1850).jpg – Wikimedia Commons.
- December 8th, 2013. “Adolphe-William Bouguereau. Part 1 – The History Painter and his painting Dante and Virgil.” my daily art display.
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France, on 30 November 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants.
- Dante and Virgile. Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge.
- Dante and Virgil: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1850, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
- Slovenščina: Dante in Virgil v peklu (Bouguereau, 1850). Svenska: Dante och Vergilius i helvetet, målning av William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
- He put forward an even larger painting inspired by Dante whose work was much loved by the Romantics and who captured all its dramatic beauty.
- The setting for Bouguereau’s work is the tenth pouch of the eighth Circle of hell. We see Dante and Virgil watching a fight between two damned souls.