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Bouguereau's
masterpiece of
dynamic composition,
a scene from 'Dante's
Inferno.'
In the Fifth Circle
of Hell, on the
banks of the River
Styx, those damned
for the sin of
wrath fight each
other through
eternity, while
the sullen and
slothful languish
helplessly. Dante
and his guide
through Hell,
the ghost of the
poet Virgil, observe
from the left,
while
a demonic angel
watches over all.
Note the striking
similarity of
the demon's appearance
to the concept
of Vlad's bat-like
form in Francis
Ford Coppola's
'Bram Stoker's
Dracula.'
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