Romance: Paolo & Francesca Artworks

“Paolo & Francesca” artworks inspired by Dante...
Amos Cassioli (1838-1891) Paolo & Francesca	Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Fugit Amor, marble (1887)	Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) Paolo & Francesca (1851)
Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880)	And she to me: “There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery— and this your teacher knows. Yet if you long so much to understand the first root of our love, then I shall tell my tale to you as one who weeps and speaks. One day, to pass the time away, we read of Lancelot— how love had overcome him. We were alone, and we suspected nothing. And time and time again that reading led our eyes to meet, and made our faces pale, and yet one point alone defeated us. When we had read how the desired smile was kissed by one who was so true a lover, this one, who never shall be parted from me, while all his body trembled, kissed my mouth. A Gallehault indeed, that book and he who wrote it, too; that day we read no more.” — Dante, InfernoV.121-138 translated by Allen Mandelbaum Click on artwork for details.	Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie (1773-1851)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)	Gustave Doré (1833-1883) “Love led the two of us unto one death.” Dante, Inferno V.108	Jean A. D. Ingres (1780-1867) “that day we read no more.” Dante, Inferno V.138