DORÉ, GUSTAVE
135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante s most highly regarded works from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise.
Includes plates produced for The Inferno Purgatory and Paradise Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation Gustave Dor 183283 was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century His Dor Bible was a treasured possession in countless homes and his best received works continued to appear through the years in edition after edition.
His illustrations for Dante s Divine Comedy constitute one of his most highly regarded efforts and were Dor s personal favorites The present volume reproduces with excellent clarity all 135 plates that Dor produced for The Inferno Purgatory and Paradise From the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise Dor 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 Thas 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 Each plate is accompanied by appropriate lines from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of Dante s work Gustave Dore 1832-83 was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century.
His Dore Bible was a treasured possession in countless homes and his best received works continued to appear through the years in edition after edition His illustrations for Dante s Divine Comedy
