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Innocence (Theology)

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  • A half-naked youth offers food to a snake coiled round a tree trunk. Engraving by C.-C. Bervic after J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 1798.
  • The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
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    The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

    Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835. | Date: 1825 | Reference: 661785i
    Part of: Episodes in Dante's Divine comedy. Etchings by B. Pinelli, 1824-1826.
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    A half-naked youth offers food to a snake coiled round a tree trunk. Engraving by C.-C. Bervic after J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 1798.

    Mérimée, J.-F.-L. (Jean-François-Léonor), 1757-1836. | Date: Enrégistrée le XIX germinal de l'an VI [8 April 1798] | Reference: 563782i
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