As anyone who has read Dante’s Divine Comedy will agree, compared with the Inferno, the Paradiso is dull. Suffering is so much easier to imagine than bliss, which may explain why depictions of the Resurrection are so much rarer than those of the Crucifixion.
29 March 2018, The Tablet
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