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 Gallery

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

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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.

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.

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.

Scenes from the Bible

Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 9780572033941
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
This beautiful introduction includes 93 well-known, dramatic and beautiful scenes from the Old Testament, 81 from the New Testament and 10 from the Apocrypha. Here is the plague of darkness, Jonah cast forth by the whale, and the more gentle images from the New Testament the annunciation and Jesus? baptism.The text gives the reader a wonderful introduction to the poetic language of the King James Bible, whilst modern explanation tells the larger story. A wonderful gift contender most beautifully illustrated by the great master of his art.

Dante's Inferno

Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: FilRougeViceversa
ISBN: 3966619318
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
"IN the midway of this our mortal life,I found me in a gloomy wood, astrayGone from the path direct: and e'en to tellIt were no easy task, how savage wildThat forest, how robust and rough its growth,Which to remember only, my dismay...

Treasury of Bible Illustrations

Author: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Painstakingly reproduced from a rare volume of German engravings, this splendid work comprises all of the Bible's best-loved, most-quoted stories. Imaginative illustrations depict 105 episodes from the Old Testament and 74 scenes from the New Testament, accompanied by a citation of chapter and verse and the King James Version of the text.

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.

The Doré Bible Gallery

Author: Gustave Dore
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344898648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
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