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 ...

“Botticelli’s secret remains just that.” Mr. Norman might have noted that all the extant illustrations were reprinted, with commentary, in “The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy,” the ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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), ...

Royal Academy of Arts, $75 (360pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-6633-8 A more artful set of interpretations can be found in Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy, an uncompleted set of 91 ...

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

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In preparation for the 700 th anniversary of the death of medieval poet Dante Alighieri, a Canadian artist is creating a sculptural tribute to his “Divine Comedy” that ...

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 ...

What's not so obvious is that Cleveland artist Sandro ... culture. Dante is widely regarded as the father of the modern Italian language because his masterpiece, “The Divine Comedy ...

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 ...