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Yates Thompson 36
f. 23
The wood of the suicide
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Description: |
Miniature of Dante breaking a branch from one of the trees in the wood of the suicide, which shouts in pain and bleeds, Dante and Virgil conversing with the wounded tree, Piero delle Vigne, and watching the souls of two suicides being chased by demons, while harpies perch in the trees, in illustration of Canto XIII. |
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Italy, N. (Tuscany, Siena?) |
Attribution: |
Priamo della Quercia |
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