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Title
Purgatory
Description
Composition in black and white. Fast contour lines. It depicts group outlined figures and devil represented by animal head, man's body and wings. To the left of the composition, horned animal carcass; kneeling human figure back, 3/4 toward the on the right, with arms raised in supplication attitude, have in front of another sketched figure, crouching: on the left of center, the hell with hands together holding something undefined and on the left leg bent with foot resting on a mound. To the right of the composition, figures group outlined in different positions, all the ground as if crawling. At the bottom two slightly wavy lines, parallel and horizontal.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event7
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Artwork Function
SketchArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Sketch for the panel Purgatory [FCO 1739]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
cardboardArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
11
Width
38.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation Author
Signed in dedication in bottom right corner "Para o Raymundo Portinari”. Undated
