Rent from the Chin

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He was rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind.

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Artist

Name:
Dargent, Yan'
Dates:
1824-1899
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Format:
Landscape (wider)
Source:
Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
La divine comédie
Author:
Alighieri, Dante
Publisher:
Paris: Garnier Frères, 1870
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Description:

An eviscerated man stands showing his wound to two others as more victims lament around them and a demon keeps torturing people in the background.
This picture illustrates the following passage:

A cask by losing centre-piece or cant
Was never shattered so, as I saw one
Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind.
(Inferno, Canto XXVIII. Translation: Henry W. Longfellow.)

The caption reads in the original French: Il était fendu depuis le menton jusqu’au fond des entrailles.

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