#divine comedy
beatrice (1879) and the salutation of beatrice (1869), painted by dante gabriel rossetti. jane morris is the model for both portraits.
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io sono in pace by dante gabriel rossetti (1875) / paulo e francesica da rimini (1867) by dante gabriel rosseti
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ophelia by alexander cabanel; ophelia by friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser; ophelia by jean baptiste bertrand; detail from ophelia by john everett millais
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Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, prima cantica : Inferno. Con l’Ottimo Commento. 15th century. Illuminated by Bartolomeo di Fruosino and his atelier.
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Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, prima cantica : Inferno. Con l’Ottimo Commento. 15th century. Illuminated by Bartolomeo di Fruosino and his atelier.
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The fact that Dante created the most popular image of the afterlife with absolutely no theological basis for it will still be the funniest thing to me
Church: Heaven is eternal connection with God, while Hell is total separation from Him. Anything else is only speculation.
Dante: Actually Hell has layers like an onion, and the devil is big and mean and also frozen. People are fighting and there’s a mountain to get to Heaven and a nice place for babies. Also I know this because I went there with my friend :)
Dante: I had a dream where I astral projected into hell with the famous poet Virgil who I am totally Best Bros with. I wrote a poem about it if you wanna read it idk
Several Popes: Thank you king I am commissioning fan art of you
Dante didn’t createthis image. To write Divine Comedy he used islamic eschatology (which, among other things, gave him the very idea of structuring his poem like this) and preexisting christian folk beliefs. Not to mention all the religious, philosophical and classical sources ne used for reference. Medieval writers in general preferred reinterpreting and assembling together preexisting material over original invention.
You can’t really get mad at ppl calling Divine Comedy fanfiction when you yourself say the most innacurate thing immaginable about it.
Codex Optica: An Epic Visual Poem In Three Parts by Paul
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The Empyrean
Geoff Ryman: The Child Garden (1989)
