Botticelli's paintings still fascinate people more than 500 years after his death. ... The "Mappa dell'Inferno" of Sandro BotticelliImage: TV Plus 2016/Andreas Schwenger.

Sandro Botticelli, Mappa dell’Inferno (Map of Hell), c. 1485, coloured drawing on goat-skin parchment, Vatican Library, Rome. Botticelli’s Mappa dell’Inferno is one of the most well-known pieces of ...

In 1480, at the age of 35, Botticelli began the project, originally conceived of as a series of 102 illustrations—one for each canto, except for “Inferno XXXIV”(two drawings), plus a “Map ...

Before 1481 Botticelli was already occupied with the Inferno; it was natural that the Divine Comedy should become his chief personal resource in a middle life becoming ever more introspective.

Publications and exhibitions abound this year honouring Dante, the poet and author of the epic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, on the 700th anniversary of his death. In Visions of Heaven: Dante ...

These qualities are on display most recently in Botticelli’s Secret. The secret at stake here is a set of drawings made by Sandro Botticelli for a Medici patron in late 15th-century Florence—a ...

Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510) was a lucky man. His father, a tanner, apprenticed his talented son first to a goldsmith (the path of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti and, ...

A painting by the famous artist Sandro Botticelli — one believed to be missing for nearly 50 years — has been discovered. The masterpiece depicting the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus was ...

For centuries, parishioners at a church in a small French town thought that a painting in their collection was a 19th-century copy of a 15th-century artwork by Sandro Botticelli. Now, a new ...

Sandro Botticelli, “The Annunciation,” circa 1490-1495. Oil, tempera, gold leaf on walnut panel. The Archangel Gabriel announces the coming of Jesus to the Virgin.