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.'