Dante outlived the ambitions of 13th century Florence. The result, I think, is a powerful photo that equals the best propaganda posters by the greatest illustrators of World War I.Despite the fact that he utilized new tools, Metz had to make numerous of the exact same aesthetic selections needed of traditional sensible painters in the past. The grim shades, the threatening light, the foreboding landscape, the placement of symbols such as the famous vulture in the dead tree, the pose of the coachman– these are all the kinds of components that Brueghel might have weighed for his landscape, The Triumph of Death.