>>7511190It's called Souls on the bank of the Acheron by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl.
It's Hermes who works as a psychopomp, showing souls what happens when they die, the greeks had multiple rivers going into the underworld, like the Styx, the Cocytus and the Acheron; that's why those souls are in pain and deathly grey, they are dead but are not ready yet to make the trip into the afterlife, Hermes as the psychopomp COULD return them to life, but he almost never did, his glow is not only from his divine status, but also to the fact he's alive.
I like that painting.
