The Map of Hell

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One of Sandro Battichelli's most famous paintings is the Map of Hell. However, another great artist has inspired him to create this painting. Whose name is Dante Alighieri. And this Map of Hell
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is the visual representation of hell mentioned in Inferno, the first and most discussed of the three books of the fourteenth-century Dante Alighieri's remarkable work of Divine Comedy.

Battichelli depicts Dante's horrific hellish torment in the form of an underground funnel - a place full of fire, sulfur, sewers, monsters in which Satan himself resides. Hell has been created in 9 cycles. And according to the sins of sinners, He has placed each one in a cycle. The painting is currently housed at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

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