Karen Coburn Sculptor

Dante

Hydrostone / Pigment
Dimensions: 16" x 37" Tall

GLUTTONY
"Who could imagine... craving could waste souls so..." - Canto XXIII


ENVY
"... I rejoiced for more at others' hurts than at my own good fortune." - Canto XIII


SUICIDE
"... out of the flesh from which it tore itself, the violent spirit comes to punishment..." - Canto XIII


SORCERY
"... since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path." - Canto XX


HYPOCRISY
"... he is a liar and the father of lies." - Canto XXIII


EVIL
"... for where the mind's acutest reasoning is joined to evil will and evil power, there human beings can't defend themselves." - Canto XXXI


TREACHERY
Dante on the Frozen Sea of Traitors
"... when a soul betrays as I did, it falls from flesh, and a demon takes its place..." - Canto XXXIII