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Dante's Dream
Dante's Dream (full title Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice) is a painting from 1871 by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
Rossetti had a lifelong interest in the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The painting was inspired by Dante's poem "La Vita Nuova". In this poem Dante dreams that he is led to the death-bed of Beatrice Portinari, who was the
largely arbitrary or folk-history based.
Criticism Dream Sky borrowed from Dante's Divine Comedy.
Shin Chae-ho's "Dream Sky" at times resembles Dante's "Divine Comedy". If Shin had knowingly presented a Korean-ized "Divine Comedy" as an authentic work of Korean fiction, it would be an adulteration of the "minjok" historiography project by Shin's own standards of ethno-cultural autonomy. Whether or not Shin even read Dante's "Divine Comedy" is purely speculative.
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