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 ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When telling a story, history’s imperfect record sometimes insists upon inconvenient gaps. This is the case with Botticelli’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a remarkable tale that spans ...

ROME — Dante Alighieri, traditionally portrayed as a stern figure with a large hooked nose, is now showing a softer side, thanks to a reconstruction of his face by Italian scientists. In most artistic ...

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 ...