‘Fraud’

SALVADOR DALI GOES TO HELL: ASTOUNDING ILLUSTRATIONS FOR DANTE’S ‘INFERNO’

exert from Dangerous Minds Article –

…In 1957, the Italian government approached Salvador Dali to produce a series of 101 watercolor illustrations intended to accompany a new edition of the Divine Comedy intended to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s birth in 1965. Dali set to work. But when the first of Dali’s paintings were exhibited at the Palazzo Pallavicini in Rome, a section of the Italian public were disgusted that a Spaniard had been hired to celebrate their country’s greatest poet rather than some Italian. The project was quickly dropped.

However, Dali seemed unperturbed. He finished the project…

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‘The Delightful Mount.’

‘The Black Cherub’

‘The Avaricious and the Prodigal.’

‘Cerebus’