William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

Author: Eric Pyle
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476617023
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
William Blake's series of illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy was his last major project and a summation of his religious and artistic beliefs. Blake intended to engrave this series, but it was unfinished at his death. The series includes seven partially complete engravings and 102 works in various stages of completion--some of the most beautiful pictures of his career. These pictures are not simple illustrations, but constitute a thorough reinterpretation and--in Blake's view--correction of Dante's poem. This book compares the two men's theological and artistic views and analyzes in detail the meaning of Blake's illustrations, for the first time introducing their theological and aesthetic exuberance to a modern audience.

William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations

Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613377X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Commissioned in 1824 — just three years before his death — Blake's sublime watercolors are peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven and range from finished pieces to rough sketches.

William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. the Complete Drawings

Author: Sebastian Schütze
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836568630
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover William Blake's complete 102 illustrations for The Divine Comedy, with excerpts from Dante's epic poem. Featuring an intimate reading of Blake's extraordinary works and many close-up details, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, ...

Blake & Dante

Author: Silvia De Santis
Publisher: Gangemi
ISBN: 9788849234497
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
Blake's Dantesque illustrations are the result of dialectics involving and questioning the very premises ? political, theological and poetic ? of the Commedia. Yet this very issue did not prevent the artist from rendering, at times more efficaciously and more profoundly than any other illustrator, Dante's unique atmospheres. Blake's approach thus enables us to revisit the Commedia from unaccustomed, privileged angles: on the one hand, we have great visionary poetry reflecting on itself; and on the other, the image that translates the poetic word, ?transforming? it into a new creation able to shed an original light on important aspects of Dante's work and thoughts.

Songs of Innocence

Author: William Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description

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.

Original Stories from Real Life

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

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.

Illustrations of the Book of Job

Author: William Blake
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015462335
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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...