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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 46

An illustration from 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, leaf 46
at the command of Virgil, rows the two poets over the Stygian marsh. The Florentine Filippo Argenti, emerging from the waters, catches at the boat with both hands. Dante and Virgil repulse him. Fetching a wide circuit, they come at last to the walls and gates of the fiery city of Dis. A host of… … In the illustration, Botticelli recurs to the preceding canto on the one hand, and on the other, inserts various details from that which follows. In the background to the right, Dante and Virgil are seen as- cending from the fourth abyss ; to the left , they arrive at the base of the tower in…

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 5-1510 · Genealogy

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