The illustrations shown in this post are most of those drawn for the final book of the Divine
Comedy. As befits their subject, Paradiso, they’re the most simple of
Botticelli’s designs for this great book (and by great book I mean both Dante's text and the singular volume that Sandro and his collaborator, Niccolò, made for their patron, Lorenzo de’ Medici.) In the poem, and likewise the
pictures, Dante is led by Beatrice through the nine concentric spheres of Heaven:
the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed
Stars, and the Primum Mobile, and finally beyond to the Empyrean, the immaterial abode
of God.
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