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 ...

Botticelli also remained extremely faithful to Dante's text ... We see the Nordic component primarily in the depictions of The Inferno that contain certain demonic figures or are set in a horrid ...

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

“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.” ...

Rather than let the 50th anniversary of The Towering Inferno pass unnoticed, it’s time to share the reasons why it came to define the disaster genre. Reportedly, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman ...

Virgin Mary, Infant Christ and the Young St. John the Baptist, studio of Sandro Botticelli, circa 1510 © GrandPalaisRmn / Tony Querrec For centuries, parishioners at ...

Dante started the “Inferno,” his description through the nine circles ... An illustration by Sandro Botticelli of the infernal abyss from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” is part of the manuscript ...

His version of Hell is used as a blueprint describing an inferno of nine circles where ... slightly different than we first thought. In Botticelli’s 1495 portrait of Dante in profile, the ...

Museum director Thomas Campbell calls “Botticelli Drawings,” the new exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, “a tour de force of scholarship and connoisseurship.” That’s ...

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 ...