Botticelli Drawings Exhibition. Botticellis Illustrations for Dantes Divine Comedy 1480-1500 Botticelli often concerned himself during his lifetime with illustrations for Dantes Divine Comedy. A spectacular collection of 92 Botticelli drawings illustrating Dantes The Divine Comedy assembled as a cycle for the first time in five centuries has returned to Italy.
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Dated to around 1480-95 and drawn on vellum Botticellis Dante drawings are very rarely exhibited. This major exhibition featured no less than thirty of Botticellis exquisite drawings for Dantes Divine Comedy alongside a selection of outstanding Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. Botticelli built up the image using oil on canvas.
Drawing attention to the paintings by Sandro Botticelli the juxtaposition of other masters of the time such as Filippo Lippi further reveals the relationships.
Hailed as one of the. Botticelli to Van Gogh. He executed the drawings over a relatively long period of time from about 1480 to 1500. Scholars agree that the engravings by Baccio Baldini follow drawn designs by Botticelli.
