This collection includes dozens of the artist's celestial beings, as created for such great literary works as the Bible, Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " and Milton's classic, "Paradise Lost."""Ideal for use by graphic artists and craftworkers, these remarkable images will also be tre[...]
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 and visions of the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the appropriate verses from the King James[...]
135 gripping scenes; from Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise; fantastic tortures, infernal landscapes, celestial wonders, more.
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208 magnificent b/w illustrations of influential Renaissance epic.
120 full-page, 70 smaller engraved plates--windmills, mountains, dragons, ladies, flaming lakes, humor, pathos, ghostly panorama. Captions.
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Gustave Dore's romantic style of illustration, imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem PARADISE LOST--recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan--were among Dore's [...]
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.
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Complete collection of drawings from the 1872 classic by France's most celebrated graphic artist presents a panoramic portrait of that engrossing city. Included are amazingly perceptive sketches of workaday London, busy marketplaces, the Christy Minstrels, thieves gambling, the Devil's Acre in Westm[...]
Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Dore has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Dore himself repudiated his early work, and similarly critics and biographers have giv[...]
All 27 of Dor 9 2s masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of Poe''s celebrated poem. Apposite quotations from the poem printed on facing pages; complete text also included.
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An introduction and notes, along with illustrations by Gustave Doré, accompany a new translation of the classic epic poem, now in a bilingual edition complete with extensive notes and appendixes, about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell. Reprint.[...]
An illustrated collection of eight world famous fairy tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Little Red Riding Hood[...]
Gustave Dore was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor, best known for his illustrations of epic literature, such as those by Dante, Cervantes, Hugo, and Milton, as well as contemporary texts, such as those by Balzac. Dore worked primarily with wood engraving. He rarely completed any w[...]