The traditional iconography of male Virgil is completely reinvented and transformed into a being of pure imagination.
A key figure who seems to have the features of a woman.
Certainly, the anatomy that does not stand for feminine grace and beauty can remember the physical frailty of some Olympic athletes and sometimes bodybuilder.
But everything has a why.
Someone said that a "classic" must be passable for any interpretation. And many will
patient and have faith and do not stop only at the first impression.
purists and conservative image of the poet of Mantua will argue the choice to steer the story line to the "Fantasy" with the intrusion of an animal-head-shaped "butterfly".
But careful observers and experts of the great triptych painting by Francis Bacon, will recognize in this dark un'Erinni form of the classical tradition.
Details of the Furies triptych by Francis Bacon
The Furies of Greek tragedies foreshadowed by their looks ominous. As the shadows lengthened and black backgrounds of paintings of English, this form with wings and antennae, apparently vague and incomprehensible, reminds us of a primordial image, a riddle that will be known only when Beatrice moved by compassion for his lost not the poet choose a model to become a guide and beacon for intrapendere journey into the underworld.
