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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we read the Inferno, we’ll also study the art. popular literature, games, and films inspired by the poems including Renaissance paintings by Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo, silent films ...

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 ...

Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece ...

A rare early painting by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli has been placed under a temporary export bar in the hope it can be saved for the nation. A rare early Botticelli painting of the Madonna ...

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 ...