Cupola fresco by Delacroix, Senate Library, Paris, France
Dantea's Inferno, Canto IV, detail, with writers from Antiquity in limbo, painting, 1840-46, by Eugene Delacroix on the cupola of the Bibliiotheque du Senat, or Senate Library, a 52m long gallery in Neoclassical style, in the Palais du Luxembourg, 6th arrondissement, Paris, France. The library was built 1837-41 by the architect Alphonse de Gisors, 1796-1866, and decorated 1845-47 with a series of paintings by Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13440889
Media ID
45127930
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7087px x 4724px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
