INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, illustration 4

Title: He first, I second, without thought of rest

we climbed the dark until we reached the point

where a round opening brought in sight the blest

and beauteous shining of the Heavenly cars.

And we walked out once more beneath the Stars.

12.25 x 10.75 inches
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June 5, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, illustration 3

Title: I looked up, thinking to see Lucifer

as I had left him, and I saw instead

his legs projecting high into the air.

12.25 x 10.75 inches
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June 4, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, illustration 2

Title: The Emperor of the Universe of Pain

jutted his upper chest above the ice...

22.75 x 10.75 inches
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June 1, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XVII, illustration 3 (alternate version)

Title: Slowly, slowly he swims on through space,

wheels and descends, but I can sense it only

by the way the wind blows upward past my face.

10.75 x 7.75 inches
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May 24, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, illustration 1

Title: I stood now where the souls of the last class

(with fear my verses tell it) were covered wholly;

they shone below the ice like straws in glass.

Some lie stretched out; others are fixed in their place

upright, some on their heads, some on their soles;

another, like a bow, bends foot to face.

15.875 x 10.75 inches
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May 24, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, illustration 4

Title: "…when a soul betrays as I did,

it falls from flesh, and a demon takes its place,

ruling the body till its time is spent."

12 x 8.5 inches
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May 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, illustration 3

Title: Their very weeping closes up their eyes;

and the grief that finds no outlet for its tears

turns inward to increase their agonies;

for the first tears that they shed knot instantly

in their eye-sockets, and as they freeze they form

a crystal visor above the cavity.

12 x 8.5 inches
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May 22, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, illustration 2

Title: "And just as you see me, I saw them fall

one by one on the fifth day and the sixth .

Then, already blind, I began to crawl

from body to body shaking them frantically.

Two days I called their names, and they were dead.

Then fasting overcame my grief and me."

11.375 x 8.5 inches
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May 18, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, illustration 1

Title: …that coop of stone

now called the Tower of Hunger for my sake…

15.5 x 10.75 inches
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May 17, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXII, illustration 4

Title: As a famished man chews crusts -- so the one sinner

sank his teeth into the other's nape

at the base of the skull, gnawing his loathsome dinner.

12 x 8 inches
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May 16, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXII, illustration 3

Title: I grabbed the hair of his dog's-ruff and I said:

"Either you tell me truly who you are,

or you won't have a hair left on your head."

12 x 8.25 inches
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May 8, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: At this my Guide spoke with such vehemence

as I had not heard from him in all of Hell:

"O Capaneus, by your insolence

you are made to suffer as much fire inside

as falls upon you. Only your own rage

could be fit torment for your sullen pride."

10.75 x 12.25 inches
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May 6, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXII, illustration 2

Title: Just so the livid dead are sealed in place

up to the part at which they blushed fpr shame,

and they beat their teeth like storks. Each holds his face

bowed toward the ice, each of them testifies

to the cold with his chattering mouth, to his heart's grief

with tears that flood forever from his eyes.

11.25 x 8.75 inches
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May 5, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXII, illustration 1

Title: Whereat I turned and saw beneath my feet

and stretching out ahead, a lake so frozen

it seemed to be made of glass.

12.25 x 10.75 inches
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May 3, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 4

Title: Thus my Master to that Tower of Pride;

and the giant without delay reached out the hands

which Hercules had felt, and raised my Guide.

12.25 x 10.875 inches
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April 22, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 3

Title: "Rafel mahee amek zabi almit,"

began a bellowed chant from the brute mouth

for which no sweeter psalmody was fit.

And my Guide in his direction: "Babbling fool,

stick to your horn and vent yourself with it

when rage or passion stir your stupid soul."

10.875 x 15.5 inches
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April 19, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 2

Title: Then taking my hand in his, my Master said:

"The better to prepare you for strange truth,

let me explain those shapes you see ahead:

they are not towers but giants. They stand in the well

from the navel down; and stationed round its bank

they mount guard on the final pit of Hell."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
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April 17, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 1

Title: And as I stared through that obscurity,

I saw what seemed a cluster of great towers,

whereat I cried: "Master, what is this city?"

15.5 x 10.875 inches
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April 13, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 4

Title: "…and never forget that I am always by you

should it occur again, as we walk on…"

12.25 x 10.875 inches
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April 6, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 3

Title: And then I saw another husk of sin,

who, had his legs been trimmed away at the groin,

would have looked for all the world like a mandolin.

12 x 8.75 inches
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April 5, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 2

Title: …two I saw, pale, naked, and unclean,

who suddenly came running toward us then,

snapping their teeth as they ran, like hungry swine

let out to feed after a night in the pen.

10.875 x 7.875 inches
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March 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 1

Title: Hecuba -- mourning, wretched, and a slave --

having seen Polyxena sacrificed,

and Polydorus dead without a grave;

lost and alone, beside an alien sea,

began to bark and growl like a dog

in the mad seizure of her misery.

12.25 x 10.5 inches
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April 1, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 4

Title: "So you will see I am the suffering shadow

of Capocchio, who, by practicing alchemy

falsified the metals…"

10.875 x 7.875 inches
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March 14, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 3

Title: "I am a shade," my Guide and Master said…

15.75 x 10.875 inches
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March 9, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 2

Title: I saw two there like two pans that are put

one against the other to hold their warmth.

They were covered with great scabs from head to foot.

12 x 8.5 inches
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March 8, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 1

Title: …and from those dead

such shrieks and strangled agonies shrilled through me

like shafts, but barbed with pity that my hands

flew to my ears.

12.25 x 10.5 inches
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March 4, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 3 (alternate version)

Title: His head is made of gold; of silverwork

his breast and both his arms, of polished brass

the rest of his great torso to the fork.

He is of chosen iron from there down,

except that his right foot is terra cotta;

it is this foot he rests more weight upon.

Every part except the gold is split

by a great fissure from which endless tears

drip down and hollow out the mountain's pit.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
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March 2, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XIII, illustration 1 (alternate versions)

Title: Here nest the odious Harpies of whom my Master

wrote how they drove Aeneas and his companions

from the Strophades with prophecies of disaster.

12.25 x 10.625 inches
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February 27, 2026

INFERNO, Canto X, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: My eyes were fixed on him already. Erect,

he rose above the flame, great chest, great brow;

he seemed to hold all Hell in disrespect.

12.25 x 10.875 inches
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February 24, 2026

INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: ...all at once three hellish and inhuman

Furies sprang to view, bloodstained and wild.

Their limbs and gestures hinted they were women.

15.5 x 10.75 inches
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February 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 4

Title: I saw it there; I seem to see it still --

a body without a head, that moved along

like all the others in that spew and spill.

It held the severed head by its own hair,

swinging it like a lantern in its hand;

and the head looked at us and wept in its despair.

10.875 x 15.5 inches
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February 22, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 3

Title: And one among them with both arms hacked through

cried out, raising his stumps on the foul air

while the blood bedaubed his face…

12 x 8.75 inches
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February 21, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 2

Title: Another -- he had his throat slit, and his nose

slashed off as far as the eyebrows, and a wound

where one of his ears had been -- standing with those

who stared at me in wonder from the pit,

opened the grinning wound of his red gullet

as if it were a mouth...

12 x 8.75 inches
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February 20, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 1

Title: Behind us, warden of our mangled horde,

the devil who butchers us and sends us marching

waits to renew our wounds with his long sword

when we have made the circuit of the pit;

for by the time we stand again before him

all the wounds he gave us last have knit.

10 x 12.25 inches
acrylic paint, ink, and watercolor on found paper
February 17, 2026