Diaz Alama CANTO XXXII. The Traitors
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About This Work
In *CANTO XXXII. The Traitors*, Jordi Diaz Alama revisits Dante’s *Inferno* with a contemporary painter’s urgency, translating literary damnation into a psychologically charged image. Working with virtuosic draftsmanship and a baroque command of chiaroscuro, Diaz Alama builds the composition through layered oil glazes and decisive, sculptural brushwork, creating flesh that feels both luminous and unforgiving. The scene’s tension—caught between narrative clarity and painterly rupture—positions betrayal as a timeless human condition rather than a medieval moral lesson. Rooted in the European tradition of history painting yet sharpened by modern sensibility, the work speaks to today’s fractured ethics, power dynamics, and collective memory.
About the Artist
Jordi Diaz Alamà was born in Granollers in 1986, he graduated from the Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He also trained at the classical art schools, such as the Florence Academy of Art (Florence) where he learned the techniques used by the great masters of 19th-century painting. Jordi ...
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