"My heart within his hands, and in his arms.
My lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil.
He woke her then and trembling and obedient.
She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”
Dante Alighieri - Inferno

Commission for  meredina and  good-monday-morning
Idea for this picture is suggested by commissioner. This is a reference to Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss".