During the genesis of ARISE, I knew that Neoclassicism would represent the next step in my journey of celebrating Greek mythology. The finesse of the details, the vividness of the colors, and the elegance of the poses would strongly contrast with the ‘Doric’ style of my first publication, celebrating a woman who is less dramatic and – absurdly – less contemporary, but much more representative of an empathy with nature and of that ‘angel woman’ ideal rooted in Petrarchan tradition that I have always loved deep down. Most of these works aim to reproduce – modernizing the protagonist – paintings by the English painter John William Godward, who died by suicide at the age of 61, and, in my opinion, the greatest Neoclassical painter ever.