![]() Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Heaven of the Fixed Stars, Paradiso Canto 26 (c 1867), engraving, dimensions and location not known. ![]() William Blake (1757–1827), St Peter and St James with Dante and Beatrice (Dante’s Paradiso) (1824-27), pen, ink and watercolour over pencil on paper, 37.1 x 52.7 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Philipp Veit (1793–1877), Fixed Stars, Gemini, Paradise (detail) (1817-27), fresco, dimensions not known, Casa Massimo, Rome, Italy. Dante is joined by the apostles Peter, James and John, who examine him in sequence on the Christian virtues of faith, hope and love, respectively. From here, Dante looks down on the poor little earth far below, then upwards to see the shining light of Christ himself, above his triumphant armies.ĭazzled, he looks down at Beatrice to recover his sight, then up again to see the Virgin Mary surrounded by the Archangel Gabriel. ![]() Dante and Beatrice ascend the golden ladder – previously Jacob’s Ladder – taking them up from the realms of the planets to the shell of fixed stars, where they arrive in Gemini, under whose sign Dante had been born. ![]()
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