A wildfire approaching Marseille destroyed ten homes and damaged dozens more. While no fatalities are reported, the fire was ...

Artists Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) By the late 1400s, the popularity of The Divine Comedy was growing. In 1481, the first commented edition of the poem was ...

‘The Divine Comedy,’ by Dante Alighieri Translated by Michael Palma Liveright, 624 Pages The poet Dante Aligheri’s “ Commedia ” — it picked up “Divine” somewhere along the way — may seem an unlikely ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most famous works?

Botticelli - Inferno: Dirigido por Ralph Loop. Con Joe Grossi. The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a ...

As a human being, as an artist, and as a follower of Christ, he saw that his vocation was to continue to speak the truth — and so he did, and does, for us. By 1321, the narrative of the poem and Dante ...

Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.

The art volume on Botticelli enriches Menarini Group's prestigious art series, created in 1956 to celebrate the beauty of Italy through the great masters of Italian painting.