BOTTICELLI, Sandro
(b. 1445, Firenze, d. 1510, Firenze)

Inferno, Canto XXXIV (detail)

1480s
Silverpoint on parchment, completed in pen and ink
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This detail from the thirty-fourth and final Canto depicts three-headed Lucifer, engaged in crushing the three greatest sinners of mankind, namely Brutus and Cassius - Caesar's murderers - as well as Judas, who betrayed Christ.