Though all three books of Dante’s epic are influential, Inferno is regarded as the most important in terms of its influence on religion and art. Never before had someone ... through what they create.

For Dante, Inferno, Purgatory ... ‘Portrait of Dante,’ by Sandro Botticelli, 1495. Detail.via Wikimedia Commons The most apt comparison to this kind of conversion of life into art could be Ms. Swift, ...

Meanwhile, the author's stark portrait, posthumously immortalized by Botticelli, appears on countless products ... such as the 2010 video game, Dante's Inferno, to traverse Hell fighting as Dante ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” ...

The artwork, which will be displayed at Cambridge ... We are particularly thrilled to be the first museum ever to borrow Botticelli’s extraordinary Venus and Mars since it was acquired for ...

Antonio Fazzini appears as Dante Alighieri in “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” streaming on PBS until ... An illustration by Sandro Botticelli of the infernal abyss from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” ...

In the popular imagination, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-1510 ... conflicted and varied artist than superficial familiarity might suggest.

The portrait of the Virgin Mary and child, painted in tempera on wood, was commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1470 from artist Sandro Botticelli, per CNN. Botticelli's most famous works ...

(See also: The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's masterpiece.) The details of the artist’s early life are few. Of Botticelli’s childhood, the 16th-century historian Giorgio Vasari wrote ...