Read our latest issue or browse back issues. The sweeping panorama Luzzi unfolds stretches from the 14th century to the present day, from the workshops of Florence, where art was made, to the bunkers ...

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 ...

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 and ...

Some things in the history of literature seem too good to be true: Alexander Pope’s translations of Homer, Henri Matisse’s illustrations of “Ulysses.” Among the most surprising are the illustrations ...

This is hell. A narrowing funnel leading down to the centre of the earth. Sandro Botticelli's chart of hell is a little like a mushroom cloud or a child's spinning top. Look closely, and there are ...

Devils with spears torturing damned souls in a pool of boiling pitch. Imagery that can be easily associated with Dante's Inferno, part of his legendary Divine Comedy. If that isn't enough to get you ...

Artist’s works illustrating scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy considered to be some of the finest Renaissance drawings Botticelli drawings showing a nobleman feasting on the head of an evil archbishop ...

Christopher Howse has spent two years visiting high streets all over England. He comments on uses and abuses of the English language and writes a weekly column on the human face of religion in history ...

In the 15th century, Sandro Botticelli illustrated Dante's 100-part masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy" and left behind sketches which continue to inspire cartoonists today. With his 100-part poem, "The ...

His "Birth of Venus" is a world-famous masterpiece. But Renaissance painter Sando Botticelli also depicted Dante's vision of Hell. Ralph Loop's new film offers a view into that universe - and the ...