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Michelangelo, da Vinci, Botticelli, Dante—the list of artists, poets, and thinkers who called Florence home goes on and on, ensuring that timeless ideas and lessons to be learned are found ...

The reference is opaque, but the animosity is as transparent as a pane of glass. Dante so despised Pope Boniface VIII that he placed him in the eighth circle of Hell, reserved for those seduced by ...

The exhibition is the first to display works by the likes of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, alongside those of Michelangelo, Botticelli and Bellini. Over 300 works of art from the ...

If you've heard of Michaelangelo, Botticelli, Brunelleschi, Galileo, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Vivaldi, Verrazzano and Nicolo Machiavelli, it is not due to them being the subject of a major ...

As the largest loan exhibition of Botticelli in the United States to date, “Botticelli Drawings,” at the Legion of Honor, sounds at first like a celebration of a Renaissance talent on the ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s ...

These illuminations for Dante’s poem undertaken by Botticelli during his years of public acclaim were a private endeavor. Ironically, they would be hidden away for many years afterward.

Dante would prende ‘l cappelo, or seize the poet’s crown, but only after exile from Florence would make him macro, or lean. Mr. Luzzi is a fair appraiser of Botticelli’s achievement, observing his ...

Many early critics found Botticelli’s drawings out of step with Dante’s text, arguing that the Renaissance artist’s sensual, full-bodied humans undermined the medieval poet’s “visceral ...

One of Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations to ‘The Divine Comedy’ by Dante Alighieri. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images ...