The "Mappa dell'Inferno" of Sandro BotticelliImage: TV Plus 2016/Andreas Schwenger For the documentary "Botticelli Inferno," the vaults of the Vatican were opened, allowing the filmmakers to tell ...

Sandro Botticelli, Mappa dell’Inferno (Map of Hell), c. 1485, coloured drawing on goat-skin parchment, Vatican Library, Rome William Blake, The Vestibule of Hell and the Souls Mustering to Cross the ...

The story of Sandro Botticelli’s creation of a series of ... a series of 102 illustrations—one for each canto, except for “Inferno XXXIV”(two drawings), plus a “Map of Hell.” ...

The extract below outlines how Sandro Botticelli approached The Divine Comedy, creating his finely wrought depiction of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, accompanying texts written by the scribe ...

The Spring of Sandro Botticelli, in short ... It was then that his first designs for the Inferno of Dante were published, and it was then he went to Rome, where he appears to have had general ...

Among the most surprising are the illustrations of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” by Sandro Botticelli, the Florentine painter famous for the mysterious “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.” ...

Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...

Sandro Botticelli, “The Angel of Annunciation,” circa 1485-90. Pen and brown ink, brown wash over metalpoint, on paper tinted with reddish-pink.Credit...Uffizi Galleries Born Alessandro di ...