Realism And Its Discontents: PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 46 - 69
After the intaglio about the annunciation, Dante moves beyond Virgil (or is prodded to move beyond his guide) to discover a second sequence, this time from the story of King David and his journey with the ark of the covenant into Jerusalem.The scene is so realistic that it causes a sensory confusion in our pilgrim. Problem is, his amazement at the realism in the art is based on the poet's fabrication of details in the scene. The imagined enhances the real? A complex game indeed!Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we look with the pilgrim at the second carving on the terrace of the prideful in…
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