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“The Stygian Lake, with the Ireful Sinners Fighting”
Canto VII, 110-127 of Dante’s Inferno. Illustration by #WilliamBlake
The Virgin Daniel
-doesn’t eat meat or wine
-made to interpret dreams
-lions reject him
-best friends have weird names
The #WilliamBlake Nebuℭ𝔥𝔞𝔡nezzar
-lives off grass
-wild animals live with him
-“destroyer of nations”
-has others interpret his epic dreams about empires
In 1809, stung by criticisms of his work and angered by being double-crossed out of a potentially lucrative commission of Chaucer illustrations, #WilliamBlake decided to put on his own art exhibition.
It was a colossal failure. 1/x
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