Round right here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such factor as an excessive amount of Orson Welles. In years previous, we gave you Welles narrating Plato’s Cave Allegory and Kafka’s “Earlier than the Regulation,” and, earlier than that, the Welles-narrated parable Freedom River, and the record goes on. Now, we current The…
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,…
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…