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

Auguste Rodin’s Kiss is one of the most famous sculptures in art history and a well-known masterwork of the sculptor.

Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatreDante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined ...

Of the three sections, however, it is the lot of the souls in the Inferno that ... information about Dante available to historians. He offers extensive autobiographical details in his works ...

However, that is exactly the case with Dante Alighieri. Regarded as The Supreme Poet, Dante's Divine Comedy is considered by many as Italy's most important literary work. Dante's depiction of the ...

For Dante, Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise were not metaphors ... ‘Portrait of Dante,’ by Sandro Botticelli, 1495. Detail.via Wikimedia Commons The most apt comparison to this kind of conversion of ...

dramatic details of Dante’s childhood, education and early literary and political career, culminating in his exile in 1302, and his decision to begin The Divine Comedy in 1306. Dante: Inferno to ...

“Dante: Inferno to Paradise” appeals to lovers of art and anyone wondering what all the fuss is about with Dante. Born in 1265, Dante started life aspiring to artistic excellence ...

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 “dark wood” Roseberry speaks of is the setting for the first canto of Inferno, where pilgrim Dante can be found, having lost his way on the path towards truth. Dante looks up to see a high ...

Dante was not always thus revered, and Mr. Luzzi is adroit at charting the uncertain course of his early fame, where Giovani Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarch contended over his legacy. Botticelli was ...

“Botticelli’s secret remains just that.” Mr. Norman might have noted that all the extant illustrations were reprinted, with commentary, in “The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy,” the ...