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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 'Dante and Beatrice in the second planetary sphere of Paradise', c.1481-1495© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Philipp Allard Sometimes barely there at all, their ...

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 ...

Why did Botticelli endure centuries of obscurity? And what happened to those Dante illustrations? A fresh account of the Renaissance explores the answer It is not unknown for tourists to faint in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...