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French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau painted this scene from Dante's Inferno, showing two damned souls fighting while Dante and Virgil watch. The muscular figures grapple in Hell's darkness.
Bouguereau's academic technique gives the horror a polished beauty. This work is at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Other masterpieces from the Academic Art movement
Rosa Bonheur, 1853
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1909
Tate Britain, London
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888
Private Collection, Unknown
Alexandre Cabanel, 1863
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1866
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Frederic Leighton, 1895
Tate Britain, London
Frederic Leighton
Leighton House Museum, London, London
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