The famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin spent most of his life working on the monumental structure The Gates of Hell.

Breaking new ground, Botticelli's iconic Renaissance masterpieces used Christian themes and classic myths to celebrate his patrons, the Medici. Perhaps his most famous work, Botticelli’s ...

Here are some of the great artists who have been inspired by Dante’s work and have shown his influence through what they create. The work Botticelli did was extraordinary, and the scale of the ...

Dante Alighieri had what today would be called a "valuable biography". Besides being a poet, at various times he was a politician and a knight, a political scientist and a theologian, a theorist of ...

“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.” ...

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Through images, music, dramatic reenactments, voiceover, and commentary from scholars around the world, we learn of Dante’s childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. An illustration by Sandro ...

But the Legion show is a reminder of the darker path his life’s journey took (to sort of quote Dante, whose writing Botticelli famously illustrated), the drawings serving as palimpsest for all ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit ... There are references to Savonarola’s sermons and Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Curator Rinaldi notes that ...

A Botticelli masterpiece presumed missing for over 50 years had been hanging in an Italian family's home. Despite the painting being entrusted to the family for safekeeping, authorities had ...