Publications and exhibitions abound this year honouring Dante, the poet and author ... The extract below outlines how Sandro Botticelli approached The Divine Comedy, creating his finely wrought ...

These are some of the hallucinatory scenes in Sandro Botticelli’s drawings for the epic poem The Divine Comedy, charting Dante Alighieri’s imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory ...

From Sandro Botticelli to Salvador Dalí, the infernal art of Dante’s Divine Comedy is a stygian delight for the lover of literature and art alike. Sandro Botticelli, Mappa dell’Inferno (Map of Hell), ...

In the beginning, it was a project to illustrate all 100 cantos of what is arguably the greatest of all European poems. Then it was a magnificent portfolio of unfinished drawings hidden away for ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy ... also includes a detailed section on Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations of ...

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.” ...

The poet Dante Aligheri’s “Commedia” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may ... ‘Portrait of Dante,’ by Sandro Botticelli, 1495. Detail.via Wikimedia Commons The most apt comparison to ...

AsinMalta’s next online lecture will discuss ‘Dante’s Divine Comedy ... who have attempted to portray the other world. Sandro Botticelli, Gustave Doré and William Blake attempted all ...

7. Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli painted a map of hell based on The Divine Comedy. An example of how artists interpreted the nightmarish scenes from Dante's The Divine Comedy.

This 1465 fresco by Domenico di Michelino depicts Dante, holding a copy of The Divine Comedy ... from Geoffrey Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, Sandro Botticelli and William Blake. In honor of the 700th ...

Meanwhile, Dante devotees can log-on to the Uffizi website and view an exhibition of illustrations depicting the Divine Comedy made between 1586 and 1588 by the Italian Mannerist painter Federico ...

Publications and exhibitions abound this year honouring Dante, the poet and author ... The extract below outlines how Sandro Botticelli approached The Divine Comedy, creating his finely wrought ...