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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Review: Botticelli's Dante, Royal Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | For Botticelli, Dante's hell was in part his own Florence, in part the Biblical and Catholic worlds, a collision of religions and mythologies (here's Mohammed, disembowelled, here the giants of antiquity, enchained), in part the state of his own soul. |
 | | Botticelli's version of the Inferno, and to a lesser extent his Purgatorio, is frequently as hilarious as it is horrible. |
 | | Botticelli's staging, his command of actions, emotions and bodies, either in relation to nature or to architecture, is always superb. |
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