Dante’s Divine Comedy

is divided into three parts: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise).

The Waste Land

BY T. S. ELIOT

‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: άποθανεîν θέλω.’

     For Ezra Pound
       il miglior fabbro.

I. The Burial of the Dead

II. A Game of Chess

III. The Fire Sermon

IV. Death by Water

Peter Paul Rubens

We see a cascade of bodies falling through the central point of the painting, a heavenly light shining from the left hand top corner of the piece. The Archangel Michael (you can spot him as he is in a blue tunic and red cape with a weapon and a shield) appears to be driving the bodies downwards with assistance of other winged angels.

Magritte painted The Son of Man as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, his eyes are over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that his left arm appears to bend backward at the elbow.