Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136949
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.

Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486138119
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
All 100 original plates from 19th-century classic, including The Massacre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Baptism of Infidels, The Battle of Lepanto, many more. Magnificent, royalty-free illustrations with captions.

Doré's Knights and Medieval Adventure

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048646542X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
The exuberant art of Gustave Doré (1832-83) has influenced romantics and realists around the world. A self-taught child prodigy who met with early and resounding success, Doré ranks among the most prolific and popular illustrators of all time. Known as "the master of the fantastic," he excelled in conveying dramatic action in memorable settings. This original collection assembles for the first time Doré's best work depicting knights and their adventures. It features eighty-six captivating scenes of battles, damsels, dragons, and other images from the Age of Chivalry. Advances in science and technology introduced irrevocable changes to the society of Doré and his contemporaries and aroused a nostalgia for simpler times. The moral certitude and stability embodied in Arthurian myths and other medieval romances proved as appealing to Victorians as they do to modern audiences. This collection features highlights from eight volumes that span more than two decades of Doré's career, including scenes from Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Other sources include Don Quixote, Orlando Furioso, Rabelais' The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, and Michaud's History of the Crusades.

Doré's London

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486135640
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
All drawings from the 1872 classic, including perceptive sketches of workaday London, thieves gambling, flower girls, waifs and strays, prisoners in the Newgate exercise yard, and a wedding at the Abbey.

Doré's Illustrations for Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso"

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486141012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 208 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Jousting knights, damsels in distress, and grotesque monsters come to life under Doré's exuberant pen style.

Doré's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost"

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486134032
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
All 50 of Doré's powerful illustrations for Milton's epic poem, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan. Appropriate quotes from the text are printed with each illustration.

The Doré Gallery

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Doré Bible Illustrations

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131939
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus, 241 plates in all.

The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486129934
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
These 135 fantastic scenes depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise.

Don Quixote Illustrated

Author: Migue D Cervantes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742

Book Description
"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled ""the first modern novel and is sometimes considered the best literary work ever written.The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story."