Doré, Gustave – “Lustful”

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I’ve found this image from the resource website: http://www.worldofdante.org/. This artwork is by Gustave Doré, and it’s entitled “Lustful”. I Believe this image is referring to Canto 5, “The hellish hurricane, which never rests” (Alighieri line 31).

Here you can see how Gustave Doré creates this nightmarish force of nature that is literally alive. The “hellish hurricane” is depicted in an interested way. The sinners are gravitated towards the eye of the hurricane. Or rather the sinners are the hurricane itself; to which there is no end, for I see the hurricane is stretched to the abyss.  The bodies were tossed around as if they were rag dolls. It definitely feels, coming off this artwork, cold and ruthless. This piece radiates a feeling of restlessness, as I mentioned before, there is no end to this hurricane, and why should it. There are new sinners emerging to this hellish plane every day or every second, as Dante Alighieri puts, “Which never rests”. I’ve chosen this image because I believe Gustave Doré encapsulate the dread and hopelessness Dante and Vigil brief visits to this chronic horrific scene.

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