Nude (art) freestanding statue of a nude since antiquity, several decades before Michelangelo's massive "David" (1501–04). Nudes in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling reestablished a tradition of male nudes in depictions of Biblical stories; the subject of the martyrdom of the near-naked Saint Sebastian had already become highly popular. The monumental female nude returned to Western art in 1486 with "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli for the Medici family, who also owned the classical Venus de' Medici, whose pose Botticelli adapted. The "Dresden Venus" of Giorgione (c. 1510), also drawing on classical models, showed a reclining female nude in a landscape,
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,