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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 35

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o , illustrated the Divine Comedy in a series of large drawings, carried out partly with the pen, partly in red and black chalk. Eighty -eight of these are now in the Uffizi collection. Zucchero's autograph inscriptions on the sheets shew them to have been executed at the Escurial about 1586- 1587,… … caught something of Botticelli's Vignette to Canto VIII of the Inferno. From a Venetian edition of Dante published in 1491. handling, especially in the de- lineation of the gigantic Satan, where he has closely followed the Botticellian conception. Where Zucchero became acquainted with Botticelli's…

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