Lot 137
- 137
[APOLLO 7]. LIFTOFF PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED BY WALTER CUNNINGHAM, QUOTING DANTE'S "PARADISO"
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Description
Color photograph, 20 by 16 inches.
Catalogue Note
SIGNED and INSCRIBED by WALTER CUNNINGHAM: "'SO DID I STARE AT THAT LAST BLAZE OF LIGHT UNTIL I HEARD THE WORDS: "WHY BLIND YOURSELF BY LOOKING FOR WHAT HAS NO PLACE UP HERE?"' DANTE, 'PARADISO' WALK CUNNINGHAM OCT. 1968 APOLLO 7" The lines were taken from Canto XXV of Dante's Paradiso (or "Heaven"), the third and final part of his Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio.