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SANDRO BOTTICELLI, PAINTER OF THE DIVINE COMMEDY

  • YEAR
    2001
  • DURATION
    52′
  • DIRECTOR
    Pietro Medioli
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    Stefano Bosco
  • VIDEO EDITING
    Marco Musilli, Aline Hervé
  • PRODUCTION
    Land Comunicazioni
    Scuderie papali al Quirinale
  • ON AIR
    Rai Sat Arte

Botticelli as never seen before: the narrator of the voyage made by Dante from the “gloomy wood” to the pits of hell, from the mountain of Purgatory to the light of Paradise. The most beautiful illustrations of the poem are a series of one hundred drawings made by the Florentine artist at the end of the 15th century. We will look at the drawings but also at some of Botticelli’s most renown works – from the Allegory of Spring to the Birth of Venus, from Pallas and the Centaur to the Calumny of Apelles – works that are also reference for the works of other artists. The documentary portrays a city, Florence, swept by transformation, and the protagonists of this epoch, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Leonardo da Vinci.


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