Sandro Botticelli, ‘La Carte de l’Enfer.’ Via Wikimedia Commons Only one of Botticcelli’s Dante illustrations was illustrated, the “Map of Hell,” an exercise in satanic cartography. “Secrets” is a map ...

Botticelli's paintings ... Inferno," the Abyss of Hell. The work was lost for centuries, the original sketch locked away in the Vatican. The "Mappa dell'Inferno" of Sandro BotticelliImage: TV ...

In the 15th century, Sandro ... work. Botticelli's illustrations, many of which are now housed in the Berlin Museum of Prints and Drawings, show Virgil leading the young Dante through hell.

a “map” of the transition from medieval to Renaissance, their vision “no less unified and transcendent than the poem that inspired it.” Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445-1510) was a lucky man.

The Royal Academy deserves our thanks for putting Botticelli's illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy back together, says Richard Dorment COMMISSIONED by a Medici patron in the late 1480s, Sandro ...

Sandro Botticelli’s small ... I see the figure as Botticelli. He could be in Hell; there are no gates, so I can’t say. Instead, I surmise that he is outside the closed Gates of Paradise.

The rare masterpiece that Sotheby’s will auction next week is shrouded in mystery and offers an opportunity to reassess the master’s lost oeuvre. Sandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel, ca.