Alberto Zardo

(Padova, 1876 - Firenze, 1959)

Oil on cardboard

cm 55,5x82

Sign at the bottom to the left. Inscription at the bottom left: "Why the wise master pushed him ...". Original illustration for the Alinari competition for the Divine Comedy, 1901; reproduced in Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy newly illustrated by Italian artists, Florence, Alinari, 1902-1903, vol. I, Inferno, p. 31.