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Rauschenberg, Dante, Kennedy, and Space Exploration

Between 1958 and 1965, Robert Rauschenberg devoted a great deal of energy to two projects inspired by Dante’s Inferno, the first canticle of the Commedia. The first of these, which Rauschenberg began in the spring of 1958 and completed in the autumn of 1960, comprises thirtyfour drawings illustrating the thirty-four cantos of the Inferno. The second, titled A Modern Inferno, was commissioned by Life and published on December 17, 1965, in an issue of the magazine that was devoted in part to commemorating the seven-hundredth anniversary of Dante’s birth. Surprisingly, perhaps, both Dante projects contain images of American astronauts dating from the late 1950s.