Botticelli's Inferno 12/28/2020 Botticelli's paintings still fascinate people more than 500 years after his death. But the artist also had a dark side. He painted and drew hell as described by the ...

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.

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, in Germany, Dürer ...

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 ...

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.

The story of Sandro Botticelli’s creation of a series of drawings to accompany Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is just the beginning of the tale. Trying to determine what happened to the ...

Seeing Dante with Botticelli’s eyes Joseph Luzzi tells the rich, entertaining story of the Renaissance artist’s renderings of a quintessentially medieval text.

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 art ...

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.

A painting by the famous Sandro Botticelli believed to be missing for nearly 50 years has been discovered in a family home in the town of Gragnano, south of Naples.

Sandro Botticelli’s iconic goddess of love in his 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” has now become a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign that leaves many ...