File:Illustration for Dante's Inferno by Sandro Botticelli 1481.jpg

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English: Engraving depicting Dante's Inferno with monstrous creatures. Engraving by Baccio Baldini after Sandro Botticelli to illustrate the a printed version of Dante's "Inferno." The illustration was mounted on a blank leaf preceding the page entitled "Canto primo della prima cantica o vero ...". 22.5 × 28.5 cm (8.8 × 11.2 in). Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Source Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University [1]
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Sandro Botticelli  (1445–1510)  wikidata:Q5669 q:it:Sandro Botticelli
 
Sandro Botticelli
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Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi
Sandro Filipepi
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli
Description Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson and fresco painter
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 17 May 1510 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
Work period 1460 Edit this at Wikidata–1510 Edit this at Wikidata
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Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
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creator QS:P170,Q5669
Other versions Fogg Art Museum
Fogg Art Museum
British Museum: online database: entry 705056

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