Prophetic Gestures: How Blake drew his Virgil

This article concentrates on one specific figure in Blake´s visual adaptation of the Commedia: Virgil, whom Dante invoked both as a poetic predecessor and as an ethical model. The gestures and physical attitudes of the character in Blake´s plates suggest an insertion of this version of Virgil within...

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Main Author: Joan Curbet
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020-10-01
Series:Dante e l'Arte
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/dea/article/view/134