The Dore Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy (136 Plates by Gustave Dore)

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Gustave Doré (1832–83) was once most likely probably the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. His Doré Bible was once a treasured possession in countless homes, and his best-received works continued to appear over the years in edition after edition. His illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy constitute considered one of his most very talked-about efforts and were Doré’s personal favorites.
The present volume reproduces with excellent clarity all 135 plates that Doré produced for The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. From the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and as much as 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 within the seventh circle, the appearance of Beatrice, the planet Mercury, and the first splendors of paradise, Christ at the cross, the stairway of Saturn, the final vision of the Queen of Heaven, and lots of more.
Each plate is accompanied by appropriate lines from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of Dante’s work.


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