nonumcaelum

—•What is Nonum Caelum?•—

This channel explores Nonum Caelum, a narrative project told through an archive of early 20th-century photographs.
The story follows Franz Alessandro von Hohenberg, an archaeologist and photographer who disappeared in 1906 after attempting to document the three realms of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
Decades later, his photographs resurface in the Vatican archives, where a bishop reconstructs the journey image by image, trying to understand what Franz truly witnessed.
The project blends historical photography, literature, theology, and fictional archaeology, presenting the story as a recovered document rather than a traditional novel.

—•Disclaimer•—

The images were generated using artificial intelligence and subsequently reworked by hand through printing, artificial aging, and digital drawing and retouching. They do not constitute real documentation. All characters, places, and events are entirely fictional.