Leonard Baskin
(American, 1922–2000)
It Is Those with Which My Eye Glows in My Head That Are of Highest Rank (Paradiso, Canto 20, lines 35-36)
Object Details
Artist
Leonard Baskin
Date
ca. 1969
Medium
Pen and ink on wove paper
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 27 × 40 1/2 inches (68.6 × 102.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Janet Marqusee, Class of 1952, and John E. Marqusee, Class of 1951
Object
Number
95.007.005
The caption for this image comes from Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy”, translated by Thomas G.(…)
The caption for this image comes from Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy”, translated by Thomas G. Bergin and illustrated by Leonard Baskin, published in 1969. The caption reads:”It is those with which my eyeGlows in my head that are of highest rank.”
