Sandro Botticelli worked on the illustrations to the Dante’s Divine Comedy for 20 years from 1480 to 1500. 92 drawings on sheepskin parchments survived, out of 100 in the entire series. There are 84 drawing in Kupferstichkabinett AKA Staatliche Museen in Berlin and 8 in Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome.
Inferno, Canto XXXIV (detail) 1480s Silverpoint, completed in pen and ink Staatliche Museen, Berlin
