Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina commedia : reduced facsimiles after the originals in the Royal Museum, Berlin, and in the Vatican Library (1896)
Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 5-1510, Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Baldini, Baccio · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 31
he artist gradually attained to a freer and grander conception of his author, and that some episodes appealed to him more than others. In several of the drawings, the outline of the silver-point has been carefully gone over with the pen in black or brown Indian ink, a notable instance of such… … Illustration to Canto XXIX of the Purgatorio. From a Dante Manuscript of the XIV. century at Altona. Botticelli does not get beyond the preliminaries of a composition. In the illustration to Canto XXXII of the Purgatory, the work advanced no farther than the conception of the three little figures…
