Botticelli Inferno is a 2016 Italian-German documentary film directed by Ralph Loop. This film is part of the Great Art Cinema project and analyzes one of the most mysterious works of Sandro Botticelli, the Hell's Map in Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli > in the Vatican Library. This map was originally part of an illustrated manuscript from Dante's Divine Comedy , featuring a work of art by Botticcelli.
The film was edited on TV Plus facilities, Medea Film, and Nexo Digital. This attempts to explain Botticelli's motivation for drawing the Hell Map, and, in the process, to reveal the dark, and lesser-known, side of the Renaissance master famous for painting Venus's Birth and Primavera .
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Plot
Botticelli has created 102 images based on Dante's Inferno which illustrates Dante's vision of Hell. One of those pictures, the Hell Map, shows the suffering of those cursed souls at various levels of Hell, analyzed by art experts and their conclusions are presented in the film.
When film director Ralph Loop saw the Botticelli exhibition in Berlin and London in 2015, he became so fascinated with the Hell Map that he decided to make a movie about it. In Ron Howard the Inferno , Hell Map is displayed briefly as a projection on the wall, while Ralph Loop's film is dedicated to checking the map and its history in detail.
The film tries to explain what motivates Botticelli to draw the Hell Map, and, thus, to uncover the dark, and less well-known, Renaissance masters renowned for the painting of Venus's Birth and Primavera .
This image is about 30 to 40 centimeters and in the film is examined by a German art historian who wears gloves in an air-conditioned vaulted safes in the Vatican. A letter from Friedrich Lippmann, director of Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, which in 1882 brought 85 of 102 Botticelli drawings to the museum, also featured in the film. High-performance digital scanners are used in movies to reveal details on maps that the human eye can not see.
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Lokales
The film was shot at locations in the Vatican, Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Vatican Library, London, Berlin and Scotland.
Reception
Die Zeit commented that the film is worth seeing "as the background for blockbuster [Ron Howard] - or vice versa." and further comments that Ron Howard's film only briefly shows map projection, while in the movie Ralph Loop, viewers can "marvel at the miracle in detail". The reviewers further asked "The whole movie about dark images is only 30 to 40 centimeters, centuries - not too dry?" concluded that "In fact, this little movie is not meant to give new insights to art scientists, but it entertains us who are not experts in the best way with small material that can be filmed in this subject so we see the shots of Florence and Rome... ". Die Zeit finally concluded, "Whoever can free himself from the vision of hell is very exaggerated, recognizing Botticelli's paintings [to] what remains: [good] good."
Spielfilm.de commented that the film would appeal to "[a] anyone who has a passion for an interesting thriller costume or an insoluble secret (art and cultural history)". The critics further commented "[o] n one-sided, [Loop] giving a comprehensive insight into Botticelli's time - every time, friendly, and understandable, as well as to the cinema goers to whom Botticelli and his artwork so far are largely foreign. "Regarding the technology used to scan map details, the reviewer states that" [f] or the documentary "Botticelli Inferno", [the map] is illuminated with a high-performance scanner, which makes shadows, coloring, detail and hidden messages visible in a way that has not "This review also mentions that the film uses the first person's narrative technique, when referring to Botticelli, which makes viewers feel close to the artist. The criticism then concludes that the film is: "a work of art that is very well documented, [of] one of the most mysterious works of art in history."
AlloCinÃÆ' Â © commented that "Botticelli - Inferno" is transporting viewers to another world: a journey to the underworld through the nine levels of hell, as described by Dante. " Only by traveling through hell and purgatory can we reach heaven and appear to see the stars again "Do not miss this unique event, specially made for cinema."
Release
The film was released in Italy in November 2016.
References
External links
- Botticelli Inferno (2016) at IMDb
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