The Birth of Venus sources and interpretations. Many art historians who specialize in the Italian Renaissance have found Neoplatonic interpretations, of which two different versions have been articulated by Edgar Wind and Ernst Gombrich, to be the key to understanding the painting. Botticelli represented the Neoplatonic idea of divine love in the form of a nude Venus. For Plato – and so for the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy – Venus had two aspects: she was an earthly goddess who aroused humans to physical love or she was a heavenly goddess who inspired intellectual love in them. Plato further argued that contemplation of
Botticelli Inferno Botticelli Inferno Botticelli Inferno is a 2016 Italian-German documentary film directed by Ralph Loop. The film is part of the project "Great Art Cinema" and analyses one of the most mysterious works of Sandro Botticelli, the "Map of Hell" in the "Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli" in the Vatican Library. The map was originally part of an illustrated manuscript of Dante's "Divine Comedy", featuring artwork by Botticcelli. The film was edited in the facilities of TV Plus, Medea Film, and Nexo Digital. It attempts to shed light on Botticelli's motivation for drawing his "Map of Hell", and, in the process,