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Artist
- Name:
- Dargent, Yan'
- Dates:
- 1824-1899
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Hildibrand, Henri Théophile
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- La divine comédie
- Author(s):
- Alighieri, Dante
- Publisher:
- Paris: Garnier Frères, 1870
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
A woman dressed in a transparent veil floats in a starry sky roamed by other flying figures.
This picture illustrates the following passage:
He says the soul unto its star returns,
Believing it to have been severed thence
Whenever nature gave it as a form.
(Paradiso, Canto IV. Translation: Henry W. Longfellow.)
The caption reads in the original French: Timée sent comme il parle. Il dit que chaque âme retourne à son étoile.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, allegory, black & white, female, flying, night