Resurrectio Lucis – Paradiso XIV (c. 15th Century)

Resurrectio Lucis — Paradiso XIV is a 15th-century devotional image structured around light as the visible consequence of perfected embodiment rather than a narrative scene.

The composition draws directly from Paradiso, Canto XIV (43–51), where author Dante Alighieri describes the resurrection of the body as a reunion that increases the soul’s radiance through completion. Figures ascend together in ordered formation, their physicality restored without weight or drama. Light functions not as embellishment, but as the organizing principle through which harmony, clarity, and shared ascent are made visible.