By Arnesia Young on January 16, 2021
Frederico Zucarri s Illustration of Canto XXXI-XXXII from Dante s ‘Inferno (Photo: Helvio ricina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
This year marks the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death in 1321. The Italian poet and philosopher is the well-known author of
The Divine Comedy a three-part epic poem describing his journey through hell, purgatory, and finally, paradise. To recognize this significant milestone, the Uffizi Gallery is displaying a collection of rarely exhibited drawings by 16th-century Renaissance artist Frederico Zuccari, which illustrate scenes from Dante’s age-old chronicle.
“Until now these beautiful drawings have only been seen by a few scholars and displayed to the public only twice, and only in part,” says the Uffizi’s director, Eike Schmidt. “Now they are published in full, alongside a didactic-scientific comme
Where Is The Portal To Hell? Easy: Hawaii!
Bodies writhing, sliding into the portal to hell located in Hawaii. This shot taken on the Kamokuna volcano by Laszlo Kestay, director of the American USGS Astrogeology Science Center, went viral worldwide. This is probably because it could be a worthy representation of Dante’s hell.
Nature has shown once more that it can be an incredible artist. While in most cases, we admire its beauty and call it heavenly, in this case, we can’t use that word. If the opposite to heavenly exists, this is it!
The incredible apocalyptic scenario created by a volcano in Hawaii, released from Dante’s hell