![]() ![]() Soon after that, it was revealed that another eight drawings from the same manuscript were in the Vatican Library. Lippmann had moved swiftly and quietly, and when the sale was announced there was a considerable outcry in the British press and Parliament. ![]() In 1882 the main part of the manuscript was added to the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings) when the director Friedrich Lippmann bought 85 of Botticelli's drawings. Dante and Virgil are each shown 6 times, descending through the 10 chasms of the circle via a ridge. The Map of Hell painting by Botticelli is one of the extant ninety-two drawings that were originally included in the illustrated manuscript of Dante's Divine ComedyĬlose ▲ Canto XVIII, part of the 8th circle of Hell. ![]()
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