The evolution of Hell was complex—from Hebrew Sheol’s shadowy stillness to Dante’s fiery abyss, which shaped Western views of ...

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

The Virgin and Child Enthroned (1470s) by Sandro Botticelli was sold at Sotheby’s London last December for £9.7m (with fees) Courtesy of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport The UK ...

Christened Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, Sandro Botticelli began life around 1445 as the youngest son of a tanner in Florence, was a small Italian city state. Devastated a century ...

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 ...

Point is, Dante’s “Inferno” did a lot for Hell’s ... Artists also brought Dante’s vision to life, like Sandro Botticelli with his “Map of Hell” in the 15th century.

“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.” ...

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

1490-1495). However, recent analysis has revealed it to be a work from the studio of the early Renaissance master, Sandro Botticelli, more commonly referred to as Botticelli (c. 1445-1510).

The exhibition “Filippino Lippi and Sandro Botticelli in Florence del ‘400,” showing at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, through Jan. 15, follows the lives and works of those two painters ...