I am now in the middle of a writer’s block/don’t wanna edit my drafts phase now.  So, for this October, I wish to dedicate this month (by slightly stealing The Year of Halloween‘s shtick, so go check her out) to art history’s dark side, starting with Sandro Botticelli.

Such a contrast to Botticelli’s iconic paintings of nature and pagan goddesses frolicking around.

Click here to learn about Botticelli’s interest in Dante.

From Canto 4 of Dante’s Inferno:

“The sixfold company in two divides;
Another way my sapient Guide conducts me
Forth from the quiet to the air that trembles;

And to a place I come where nothing shines.”