From the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise, Doré'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, Thaïs 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.Įach plate is accompanied by appropriate lines from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of Dante's work. The present volume reproduces with excellent clarity all 135 plates that Doré produced for The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Gustave Doré, combat du taureau et de léléphant(1862-1873) dans Voyages en Espagne de Jean Charles Davillier. This is how he presents himself to Dante when he is in Hell : 'Voi cittadini mi chiamaste Ciacco per la dannosa colpa de la gola, come tu vedi, a la pioggia mi fiacco. Dor was 23 years old in 1855, when he first decided to create a series of. Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri’s epic poem the Divine Comedy, but none have made such an indelible stamp on our collective imagination as the Frenchman Gustave Dor. His illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy constitute one of his most highly regarded efforts and were Doré's personal favorites. Ciacco ( takko) is one of the characters in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri that was not yet well defined by historians. Gustave Dor’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s.

His Doré Bible was a treasured possession in countless homes, and his best-received works continued to appear through the years in edition after edition.

Gustave Doré (1832–83) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. The Divine Comedy, written by Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the fourteenth century, is considered the foremost work in Italian literature. (Jesus expels the vendilhes from the temple by Gustav Dore).

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