Canto VIII: Circle 5+6, The Styx, The Wrathful; Dis – Capital of Hell, The Fallen Angels
1958/1965
Heliograph on laid paper
Edition: 250, numbered 67/250
framed 54,5 x 46,8 cm
signed and numbered by hand
signed and dated in the imprint
from “Le 34 tavole di Robert Rauschenberg per l ́Inferno di Dante”, edited in 1965 by Edizioni Macorini, Milan, based on the 1958-59 originals from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Dante and Virgil cross the Styx. From a distance, Dante sees the fiery red towers of Dis, the capital of hell. The walls of the city are guarded by fallen angels.”