denisforkas:Study for Hypocrites (illustration for Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri/Inferno, Canto 2
denisforkas:Study for Hypocrites (illustration for Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri/Inferno, Canto 23), after Francisco Goya after John Flaxman, 2015Acrylics on paper, 29.5 x 41.7 cm“Là giù trovammo una gente dipintache giva intorno assai con lenti passi,piangendo e nel sembiante stanca e vinta.Elli avean cappe con cappucci bassidinanzi a li occhi, fatte de la tagliache in Clugnì; per li monaci fassi.Di fuor dorate son, sì ch'elli abbaglia;ma dentro tutte piombo, e gravi tanto,che Federigo le mettea di paglia.”***“We found, down there, a people painted bright.Their tread, as round they went, was very slow,weeping, worn down and seemingly defeated.They all wore robes with hoods hung low, that hidtheir eyes, tailored – in cut – to match those wornby monks who thrive in Benedictine Cluny.So gilded outwardly, they dazed the eye.Within, these robes were all of lead – so heavythose capes that melt in torture would seem mere straw.”(trans. R. Kirkpatrick) -- source link