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 47
nd the Furies on the tower, holds up the head of the Gorgon. Borne on a whirlwind, a heavenly messenger passes dryfooted across the Styx, the souls of the damned fleeing before him. He reaches the gate of the city, and touches it with his wand, whereupon it flies open, and Dante and Virgil enter.… … ENGRAVING OF 14S1. The plate differs a good deal from the drawing. The Gorgon, which appears behind the Furies on the tower
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