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 ...

“Botticelli’s Secret” isn’t really about a secret. To prove the point, I’ll spoil it right away. The Florentine painter illustrated a Florentine poet’s poem, a project that went into political and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all the cities I’ve visited, Florence is my favourite. I’ve been there only once, way back in the mid-70s. But I fell in love with it instantly. The old city – with its rabbit warren of narrow ...

New light has been shed on techniques used by Sandro Botticelli by experts at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum while preparing for the major exhibition “Botticelli Reimagined”, which will tour to ...