The illustration above shows Gustave Doré's (1832-83) concept of the Empyrean in Dante's Divine Comedy, the highest heaven. Here, Beatrice and Dante are shown having come face to face with God.
What absolute gorgeous awe, this work by one of my favorite artists is spellbinding, wondering why I haven't delved deeper in my life into Dante! What tragic mystery in the whole oceanic heaven, studded with angelic fires masked against the brink of human daring in the mold of universal form!
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My introduction to Gustave Dore was through his piece, "The Wandering Jew" the image holds fast within my mind like a dream that won't loose its grip from my fantastically swayed conscious upbringing in the worlds and worlds beyond art and its mastery by human hands, such bravura of touch in his bare greed to depict the honey of our unspoken lust with the dreamless center of pure inflection from the face of God blasted through with light and finally taming our mortal strife!
What absolute gorgeous awe, this work by one of my favorite artists is spellbinding, wondering why I haven't delved deeper in my life into Dante! What tragic mystery in the whole oceanic heaven, studded with angelic fires masked against the brink of human daring in the mold of universal form!
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My introduction to Gustave Dore was through his piece, "The Wandering Jew" the image holds fast within my mind like a dream that won't loose its grip from my fantastically swayed conscious upbringing in the worlds and worlds beyond art and its mastery by human hands, such bravura of touch in his bare greed to depict the honey of our unspoken lust with the dreamless center of pure inflection from the face of God blasted through with light and finally taming our mortal strife!
Blessings.
Thank you for your very interesting comment.
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