The pain­ting is an indepen­dent travesty on Eugene Delacroix’s The Barque of Dante (1822), also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell. Matecki main­tains the integrity of the original with regard to com­position, but introduces a series of highly unacademic innovations, such as the sub­ject of Dante represen­ted in char­coal, along­side magazine cut-​outs of fashion models. The title of the pain­ting appears in the right-​hand sec­tion of the pain­ting, bor­rowed from the fourth album by metal band Sepul­tura (1991). Matecki’s Arise is a hel­lish vision of art, where the greats of French Roman­ticism are depic­ted along­side Brazil’s pioneers of Death and Trash Metal. The experience of this radical form of music is cited by Matecki has his most significant source of artistic inspiration.