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Visions of life and death: new books reveal the powerful illustrations of two women artists

Meditations on the afterlife are delivered in glorious pictorial representation by Rachel Owen and Agnes Miller Parker

Jacqueline Riding
18 October 2021
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Rachel Owen, Canto XXXIII: The Traitors Frozen in Cocytus (Antenora and Ptolomea). Ugolino tells his tale of betrayal and death in “the tower now called Hunger”, while Fra Alberigo begs Dante to remove the ice freezing his face so he can let vent to his agony. From Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno (2016) © The estate of Rachel Owen