The very first clue in Zobrist's evil plot is hidden in Botticelli's map of Dante's version of hell, detailed in Inferno. When Langdon finds it, with Dr. Sienna Brooks by his side, he immediately ...

Botticelli's paintings still fascinate people more than 500 years after his death. But the artist also had a dark side. He painted and drew hell as described by the poet Dante. The work was ...

In the mid-18th century, for instance, Voltaire could proclaim the unthinkable: “Nobody reads Dante anymore.” Luzzi pays special attention, of course, to Dante (d. 1321) and Botticelli ... the ...

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 ...

as well as Botticelli’s painting The Map of Hell, based on Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem The Divine Comedy. These art references are an insidious joke, since Howard and Hanks care ...

The story of Sandro Botticelli’s creation of a series of drawings to accompany Dante’s “The Divine ... except for “Inferno XXXIV”(two drawings), plus a “Map of Hell.” ...

the Inferno is it. Throughout Dante’s nightmare journey, he is continually reminded by Virgil to refrain from sympathy for those suffering the pains of Hell. Had they not died without sincere ...

In 1588 a young Galileo used the descriptions in the Inferno to calculate Hell to be over 3,245 miles deep. As Dante and Virgil do not walk in a straight line, they cover an even greater distance!

Hell was a place that was mapped out for them, quite literally, like a Dungeons & Dragons player might map out their game.’ Looking to the future, Knight said video games need a major ...