But the artist also had a dark side ... TV Plus 2016/Andreas Schwenger For the documentary "Botticelli Inferno," the vaults of the Vatican were opened, allowing the filmmakers to tell the story ...

the infernal art of Dante’s Divine Comedy is a stygian delight for the lover of literature and art alike. Sandro Botticelli, Mappa dell’Inferno (Map of Hell), c. 1485, coloured drawing on goat-skin ...

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Sandro Botticelli is considered one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. His "Birth of Venus" is continually revisited in art. The documentary film "Boticello Inferno" shows a different ...

In Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light ... outlines how Sandro Botticelli approached The Divine Comedy, creating his finely wrought depiction of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso ...

Sandro Botticelli, The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1478-1482, tempera and oil on poplar panel. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art Just one year later the ... quality of his final drawings for ...

But this is not that kind of show — and Botticelli, as we come to see, is not that kind of artist, even if the auction houses would like us to think so. Resisting the pressure to blockbusterize ...

Botticelli was not the only artist in Florence who asked Vespucci to be his model. During her brief stay in the city, she also sat for portraits by Piero di Cosimo, who once painted her as ...

In Visions of Heaven: Dante and the Art of Divine Light ... outlines how Sandro Botticelli approached The Divine Comedy, creating his finely wrought depiction of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso ...