INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 2

Title: Then they raked him with more than a hundred hooks

bellowing: "Here you dance below the covers,

Graft all you can there: no one checks your books."

They dipped him down into that pitch exactly

as a chef makes scullery boys dip meat in a boiler,

holding it with their hooks from floating free."

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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December 1, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 1

Title: …I saw a figure that came running toward us

across the ridge, a Demon huge and black.

Ah what a face he had, all hate and wildness!

Galloping so, with his great wings outspread

he seemed the embodiment of all bitterness.

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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November 30, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 4

Title: And he: "That one whose beard spreads like a fleece

over his swarthy shoulders, was an augur

in the days when so few males remained in Greece

that even the cradles were all but empty of sons.

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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November 29, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 3

Title: Over those whited bones they raised the city,

and for her who had chosen the place before all others

they named it -- with no further augury -- 

Mantua.

8.25 x 10.75 inches

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November 28, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 2

Title: And see Tiresias, who by his arts

succeeded in changing himself from man to woman,

transforming all his limbs and all his parts;

later he had to strike the two twined serpents

once again with his conjurer's wand before

he could resume his manly lineaments.

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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November 27, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 1

Title: And when I looked down from their faces, I saw

that each of them was hideously distorted

between the top of the chest and the lines of the jaw; 

for the face was reversed on the neck, and they came on

backwards, staring backwards at their loins,

for to look before them was forbidden.

12 x 8.75 inches

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November 26, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 4

Title: Of such as you was the Evangelist's vision

when he saw She Who Sits upon the Waters

locked with the Kings of earth in fornication.

She was born with seven heads, and ten enormous

and shining horns…

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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November 23, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 3

Title: I said: "Indeed! Now tell me how much cash

our Lord required of Peter in guarantee

before he put the keys into his keeping?

Surely he asked nothing but 'Follow me!'"

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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November 22, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 2

Title: "If to know who I am drive you so fearfully

that you descend the bank to ask it, know

that the Great Mantle was once hung upon me.

And in truth I was a son of the She-Bear

so sly and eager to push my whelps ahead,

that I pursed wealth above, and myself here.

Beneath my head are dragged all who have gone

before me in buying and selling holy office;

there they cower in fissures of the stone."

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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November 10, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 1

Title: From every mouth a sinner's legs stuck out

as far as the calf. The soles were all ablaze

and the joints of the legs quivered and writhed about.

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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October 15, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 4

Title: I saw among the felons of that pit

one wraith who might or might not have been tonsured --

one could not tell, he was so smeared with shit.

12 x 8.875 inches

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October 13, 2025