These illuminations for Dante’s poem undertaken by Botticelli during his years of public acclaim were a private endeavor. Ironically, they would be hidden away for many years afterward.

Luzzi has an eye for the roller-coaster ride of literary trends and shifts in taste. In the mid-18th century, for instance, Voltaire could proclaim the unthinkable: “Nobody reads Dante anymore.” Luzzi ...

Dante would prende ‘l cappelo, or seize the poet’s crown, but only after exile from Florence would make him macro, or lean. Mr. Luzzi is a fair appraiser of Botticelli’s achievement, observing his ...

With his 100-part poem, "The Divine Comedy," Italian poet Dante Alighieri created a masterpiece. Almost 200 years later, around 1481, the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli began illustrating the work.

Sandro Botticelli's drawing Jacob’s Ladder for Dante's La Divina Commedia, Paradiso, Canto XXI Courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett ...

Among the most surprising are the illustrations of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” by Sandro Botticelli, the Florentine painter famous for the mysterious “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.” ...

Botticelli’s Divine Drawings The long-forgotten illustrations of The Divine Comedy’ have been reprinted, with commentary. Nov. 9, 2022 5:38 pm ET Share ...

Sandro Botticelli, “Dante: Divina Commedia: Canto XVIII, part of the 8th circle of Hell” (1480s), Manuscript (MS. Hamilton 201), 320 x 470 mm; Staatliche Museen, Berlin ...

For him Botticelli also executed the Dante illustrations, now preserved at Berlin. This relation of patron and artist lasted some twenty years, evoking Sandro’s most precious and characteristic ...

This is the case with Botticelli’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a remarkable tale that spans centuries, countries, and players. Undaunted, Joseph Luzzi, a professor of comparative ...

Peter Keller, Horst Bredekamp, Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg. Royal Academy of Arts, $75 (360pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-6633-8 A more artful set of interpretations can be found in Sandro Botticelli: The ...