Behold Gustave Doré’s Dramatic Illustrations of the Bible (1866)

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One occa­sion­al­ly hears it stated that, due to the inter­internet, all of the books tru­ly value learn­ing are free: Shake­speare, Don Quixote, the sto­ries of Edgar Allan Poe, the Divine Com­e­dy, the Bible. Can it’s a coin­ci­dence that every one of those works impressed illus­tra­tions by Gus­tave Doré? When he was lively in mid-nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry France,…

Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884)

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One of many busiest, most in-demand artists of the nineteenth cen­tu­ry, Gus­tave Doré made his identify illus­trat­ing works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Mil­ton, and Dante. Within the 1860s, he cre­at­ed one of the crucial mem­o­rable and pop­u­lar illus­trat­ed edi­tions of Cer­vantes’ Don Quixote, whereas on the similar time com­plet­ing a set of engrav­ings…