![]() ![]() His drawings let us share the Florentine artist’s fascination for this masterpiece of poetry and humanism from the imagination of Dante Alighieri. ![]() Sandro Botticelli began illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy at the request of Lorenzo di Pier Francesco di Medici around 1490. Botticelli who used here the ideas first introduced in his designs of the engravings for the Florentine edition of "Commedia" (1841). General project of the manuscript's form is due to S. ![]() This also gave a special significance to the miniatures of the "Plan of Hell" and Lucifer clasping the book's course. ![]() Book was probably opened vertically what is understandible from the practical reasons. Each canto, illustrated by one all-page set of drawings, is contained on one page what was allowed by removal of the commentary. A number of the structural innovations were introduced in the volume. It is characterized by the very tight connection between the text parts and the adequate illustrations depicting the scenes in the fullest detail, what reminds the cedexes. The manuscript of the Dante's "Commedia" was embellished by 92 drawings made by Sandro Botticelli between ca 14. ![]()
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