This was the second part of my paintings based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. Purgatorio was exhibited in Manhattan at a pop-up gallery space by Brooklynite Gallery on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

‘chi v’ha guidati, o che vi fu lucerna, uscendo fuor de la profonda notte’, oil on canvas, 110 x 40cm

‘as good a place as any to start a story’, oil on board, 50 x 23 cm, 2010

‘feeding the third terrace’, oil on board, 23 x 23cm

‘feeding the fifth terrace’, oil on board, 23 x 23 cm, 2011

‘vassi caggendo e quant ella piu ngrossa tanto piu trova di can farsi lupi la maladetta e sventurata fossa’, oil on board, 50 x 50cm

‘dì, dì se questo è vero a tanta accusa tua confession conviene esser congiunta’, oil and gold-leaf on board, 50 x 50cm

‘the cardinal virtue of media temperance’, oil on board, 50 x 23 cm, 2008

‘summae deus clementiae’, oil on board, 50 x 50cm

‘feeding the sixth terrace’, oil on board, 23 x 23cm, 2008

‘Lì cominciò con forza e con menzogna’, oil on board, 50 x 50cm

‘imaginary construction for a history painting’, oil on canvas, 265 x 234cm

‘noi andavam per lo solingo piano com’ om che torna a la perduta strada che ‘nfino ad essa li pare ire in vano’, oil on board, 50 x 50cm

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