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The Key to Dante's Divine Comedy

The Key to Dante's Divine Comedy

The Heavens as the central motif, with the Triangle and the Pyramid in a secondary part. From The Secret Teachings of All Ages.

J. Augustus Knapp, colour plate, 1928.

Public domain, US and EU · Web copy 880 by 1303 px · Internet Archive

Key · 2 motifs

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  1. Primary motif
  3. Secondary motifs · 1

The picture

The golden triangle with the rose over the spheres; the Triangle secondary, by eye. By eye

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Also carrying the Heavens

15 works, 8 with it as the central motif. The symbol.

Also carrying the Triangle and the Pyramid

5 works. The symbol.

By the same hand

J. Augustus Knapp

In the same series

The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928

Record

Source
Internet Archive
Rights
Public domain in the United States, where the 1928 book's term expired on 1 January 2024, and in the European Union, where the artist's rights have lapsed. The Internet Archive uploader's Creative Commons notice cannot attach to a public-domain plate; the record relies on the public-domain status and credits the Archive as the source of the scan.
Restoration
None. A 880 by 1303 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928
Artist
J. Augustus Knapp, American painter and illustrator, 1853 to 1938, who drew the colour plates of The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) for Manly P. Hall
Checked
Not yet checked against a second source. The record is as the holding institution published it, or as its caption was read here.
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Symbolica, “The Key to Dante's Divine Comedy”, J. Augustus Knapp, colour plate, 1928. thesymbolica.com/work/the-key-to-dantes-divine-comedy/