Sandro Botticelli, “Beatrice explains to Dante the order of the cosmos (Divine Comedy, Paradiso II)” (circa 1481–1495), pen and brown ink over metal pen on parchment, 32.4 x 47.4 cm (© Staatliche ...
A detail from Sandro Botticelli's "The Chart of Hell" (Wikimedia Commons) In the beginning, it was a project to illustrate all 100 cantos of what is arguably the greatest of all European poems. Then ...
Dante's Inferno inspired Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) to create a series of 34 drawings that comprise one of the most remarkable creative enterprises of 20th-century American art. Completed between ...
Other literary works must have had the impact on artists of The Divine Comedy, although, Shakespeare and the Bible apart, I can not think of one offhand. A quick jog through art history throws up ...
Gallery puts seldom-seen Divine Comedy sketches on display online to mark 700 years since poet’s death Eighty-eight rarely seen drawings of Dante’s The Divine Comedy have been put on virtual display ...
A spectacular collection of 92 Botticelli drawings illustrating Dante's The Divine Comedy, assembled as a cycle for the first time in five centuries, has returned to Italy. Hailed as one of the great ...