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The Map of Hell (La mappa dell'Inferno), between 1480 and 1490, by Sandro Botticelli, 33 cm ร 47.5 cm, silverpoint, brown and black ink, tempera, Vatican Library
The Map of Hell by Botticelli โ regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dellโInferno โ is one of the parchments that the famous Italian painter designed to illustrate an edition of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The Map of Hell parchment shows the geography of Hell in the classical funnel section, which was used in later iconography.
Our most important early source on Botticelli's drawings is Giorgio Vasari, who wrote in 1550 in his Lives of the Artists that: "Having completed the work assigned to him, he returned at once to Florence, where, being whimsical and eccentric, he occupied himself with commenting on a certain part of Dante, illustrating the Inferno, and executing prints, over which he wasted much time, and, neglecting his proper occupation, he did no work, and thereby caused infinite disorder in his affairs."
The Map of Hell by Botticelli โ regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dellโInferno โ is one of the parchments that the famous Italian painter designed to illustrate an edition of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The Map of Hell parchment shows the geography of Hell in the classical funnel section, which was used in later iconography.
Our most important early source on Botticelli's drawings is Giorgio Vasari, who wrote in 1550 in his Lives of the Artists that: "Having completed the work assigned to him, he returned at once to Florence, where, being whimsical and eccentric, he occupied himself with commenting on a certain part of Dante, illustrating the Inferno, and executing prints, over which he wasted much time, and, neglecting his proper occupation, he did no work, and thereby caused infinite disorder in his affairs."
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Whereas previous artists had decorated manuscripts of The Divine Comedy as well, Botticelliโs drawings were very detailed and exceptionally faithful to Danteโs epic, full of gory details. The structure of hell is shaped like an inverted coneโlike a funnelโwhich degrades with its nine circles to the center of the Earth, in which Lucifer is embedded. Many agree that itโs one of the most impressive of all Botticelliโs drawings, a multi-layered image of horror and suffering. The avaricious are forced to push heavy stones around for eternity, the wrathful and sullen are forever stuck in the muddy water of the Styx, the heretics are consumed by purifying fires. They are guarded on all sides by a multitude of devils.
The drawings travelled all over the world and exchanged hands many times, but started receiving most attention during the late 19th century. Today they are divided between the Vatican Library in Rome, where the Botticelli Map of Hell is kept, and Berlinโs Kupferstichkabinett.
The drawings travelled all over the world and exchanged hands many times, but started receiving most attention during the late 19th century. Today they are divided between the Vatican Library in Rome, where the Botticelli Map of Hell is kept, and Berlinโs Kupferstichkabinett.
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Basilique Notre-Dame (Montrรฉal)
La basilique Notre-Dame de Montrรฉal est une basilique situรฉe dans lโarrondissement historique du Vieux-Montrรฉal, ร Montrรฉal, au Quรฉbec, au Canada.
La construction principale a eu lieu entre 1824 et 1829. La premiรจre pierre est posรฉe ร la place dโArmes le 1er septembre 1824. Le sanctuaire a รฉtรฉ achevรฉ en 1830, et la premiรจre tour en 1841, la seconde en 1843. James OโDonnell a conรงu les tours pour รชtre traditionnellement gothiques et destinรฉes ร รชtre vues de nโimporte quel point de la ville.
Lโintรฉrieur de lโรฉglise est parmi les plus spectaculaires au monde et considรฉrรฉ comme un chef-dโลuvre de lโarchitecture nรฉogothique. Les voรปtes sont de couleur bleu profond et dรฉcorรฉes dโรฉtoiles dorรฉes, et le reste du sanctuaire est dรฉcorรฉ de bleus, dโazurs, de rouges, de violets, dโargent et dโor. Il est rempli de centaines de sculptures en bois complexes et de plusieurs statues religieuses. Fait inhabituel pour une รฉglise, les vitraux le long des murs du sanctuaire ne reprรฉsentent pas des scรจnes bibliques, mais plutรดt des scรจnes de lโhistoire religieuse de Montrรฉal. Il possรจde รฉgalement un orgue Casavant Frรจres, datรฉ de 1891, qui comprend quatre claviers, 92 jeux ร action รฉlectromagnรฉtique et un systรจme combinรฉ rรฉglable, 7000 tuyaux individuels et un pรฉdalier.
La basilique Notre-Dame de Montrรฉal est une basilique situรฉe dans lโarrondissement historique du Vieux-Montrรฉal, ร Montrรฉal, au Quรฉbec, au Canada.
La construction principale a eu lieu entre 1824 et 1829. La premiรจre pierre est posรฉe ร la place dโArmes le 1er septembre 1824. Le sanctuaire a รฉtรฉ achevรฉ en 1830, et la premiรจre tour en 1841, la seconde en 1843. James OโDonnell a conรงu les tours pour รชtre traditionnellement gothiques et destinรฉes ร รชtre vues de nโimporte quel point de la ville.
Lโintรฉrieur de lโรฉglise est parmi les plus spectaculaires au monde et considรฉrรฉ comme un chef-dโลuvre de lโarchitecture nรฉogothique. Les voรปtes sont de couleur bleu profond et dรฉcorรฉes dโรฉtoiles dorรฉes, et le reste du sanctuaire est dรฉcorรฉ de bleus, dโazurs, de rouges, de violets, dโargent et dโor. Il est rempli de centaines de sculptures en bois complexes et de plusieurs statues religieuses. Fait inhabituel pour une รฉglise, les vitraux le long des murs du sanctuaire ne reprรฉsentent pas des scรจnes bibliques, mais plutรดt des scรจnes de lโhistoire religieuse de Montrรฉal. Il possรจde รฉgalement un orgue Casavant Frรจres, datรฉ de 1891, qui comprend quatre claviers, 92 jeux ร action รฉlectromagnรฉtique et un systรจme combinรฉ rรฉglable, 7000 tuyaux individuels et un pรฉdalier.
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