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The Barque of Dante
The Barque of Dante (), sometimes known as Dante and Virgil in Hell ("Dante et Virgile aux enfers"), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and one of the works signalling a shift in the character of narrative painting from Neo-Classicism towards the Romantic movement. It was completed for the opening of the Salon of 1822 and currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The painting is loosely based on fictional events taken from canto eight
Rodin was also inspired by Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judgment", Delacroix's painting "The Barque of Dante", Balzac's collection "La Comédie humaine" and Baudelaire's poems "Les Fleurs du mal".
In an article in "Le Matin", Rodin said: "For a whole year I lived with Dante, with him alone, drawing the eight circles of his inferno. [...] At the end of this year, I realized that while my drawing rendered my vision of Dante,