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Botticelli: Visions of Violence and Beauty
Kirsty Wark looks at Sandro Botticelli's visual realisation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy', illustrations which have been called 'the world's first great comic strip'.
Kirsty Wark looks at Sandro Botticelli's visual realisation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The illustrations, which have been called 'the world's first great comic strip', chart the human experience, providing an astonishing picture of the worlds of heaven and hell, purgatory, space travel, life on earth, love and lust, greed and humility, violence and peace, and beauty and ugliness.
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