>>7479919Free context for this. This is Dante and Virgil on their journey towards heaven. At this point they are in the deepest circle of hell reserved for traitors. In the center of it is the devil waist high in water but he is trying to fly away. his wings are so powerful the winds produced freeze the water.
The people show in the painting are on the outer rim of that puddle since they are only waist deep. the closer you get to the center the deeper people are buried
