Title: "Dante and Beatrice's Eden"

Materials: oil on canvas

Measurements: 50cm x 50cm

Year: 2022

Price: $ 5000 USD

Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it

This artwork is inspired by the last verse of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: "The Love that moves the sun and the other stars" taken from Paradiso XXXIII verse 145. First slowly two children hold hands to represent the sentiment of love, on the right the sun of Vergina, symbol of the ancient Macedonian state, refers to the painter's Hellenic roots and to the solar element, an astral constellation echoes Dante's aphorism. The abstract and polychromatic background seems to move in a metaphysical space, like the desire and the will of the poet that underlies the aforementioned phrase. The stars represent the goal to which Dante aspires and like the phrase that inspires the painting, it contains the meaning of Dante's entire work, so the pictorial interpretation contains the meaning of his artistic translation. The arrwork is set by music by korean pianist Younee https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1yrPekB7c 

但丁和贝阿特丽斯的伊甸园 (Dante and Beatrice's Eden）布面油画，50x50cm，奖金 5000 美元，灵感来自但丁-阿利吉耶里（Dante Alighieri）的《神曲》最后一节："爱让太阳和其他星星移动"，摘自《天堂》第三十三章第 145 节。首先缓缓移动的是两个手牵手的孩子，代表了爱的情感；右边是象征古马其顿国的韦尔吉纳太阳，寓意画家的希腊血统和太阳元素，一个星体星座呼应了但丁的箴言。抽象的多色背景似乎在一个形而上的空间中移动，就像上述箴言所蕴含的诗人的欲望和意志。星星代表但丁向往的目标，就像激发这幅画的那句话一样，它包含了但丁整部作品的含义，因此画作的诠释也包含了但丁艺术翻译的含义。该作品由韩国钢琴家 Younee https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1yrPekB7c 演奏。