Empireo by giulband

Bryce • Surrealism • posted on Apr 26, 2020

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Free interpretation of part of Dante's journey to Paradise as narrated in the "Divine Comedy". Beatrice accompanies Dante here and explains to him that the Empyrean (tenth heaven) is the heavenly Jerusalem where the chosen souls are citizens, even if the end of time is near and few are destined to enter it (the seat of Emperor Arrigo VII of Luxembourg, who died in 1313, is ready and a crown is placed on it.