Paradise

Paradise from 1445 at the Metropolitan Museum illustrates Dante's Paradiso with Giovanni di Paolo's unique visionary imagination. The painting, part of a series illustrating the Divine Comedy, transforms Dante's celestial vision into a landscape of supernatural beauty Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in the sixteenth century, offered greater flexibility for large-scale compositions It is now held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with one of the finest collections o

The paradisiacal landscape is rendered with brilliant color and inventive spatial arrangements, Giovanni di Paolo's distinctive style creating a world that is simultaneously natural and supernatural.