The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy: 136 Plates

Gustave Dor (1832-83) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. His Dor Bible was...
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Author: Gustave Doré
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The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy: 136 Plates by Doré, Gustave

The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy: 136 Plates

€31,05

The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy: 136 Plates

€31,05
Author: Gustave Doré
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Gustave Dor (1832-83) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. His Dor Bible was a treasured possession in countless homes, and his best-received works continued to appear through the years in edition after edition. His illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy constitute one of his most highly regarded efforts and were Dor 's personal favorites.
The present volume reproduces with excellent clarity all 135 plates that Dor produced for The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. From the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise, Dor 's illustrations depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece in such famous scenes as the embarkation of the souls for hell, Paolo and Francesca (four plates), the forest of suicides, Tha s the harlot, Bertram de Born holding his severed head aloft, Ugolino (four plates), the emergence of Dante and Virgil from hell, the ascent up the mountain, the flight of the eagle, Arachne, the lustful sinners being purged in the seventh circle, the appearance of Beatrice, the planet Mercury, and the first splendors of paradise, Christ on the cross, the stairway of Saturn, the final vision of the Queen of Heaven, and many more.
Each plate is accompanied by appropriate lines from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of Dante's work.



Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 06/01/1976
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 11.94h x 9.03w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780486232317

About the Author
French illustrator Gustave Doré (1833-83) began his prolific career at the age of 15, and his dramatic engravings have exercised an incalculable influence over latter-day artists. The remarkable scope of his work ranges from Milton, Dante, and the Bible to Rabelais, Shakespeare, and street scenes of 19th-century London.


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