Dore's Illustrations for Paradise Lost - Paperback by Gustave Doré

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ISBN
9780486277196
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486277194
ISBN-13
9780486277196
eBay Product ID (ePID)
889804

Product Key Features

Book Title
Doré's Illustrations for Paradise Lost
Number of Pages
64 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Individual Artists / Artists' Books, Individual Artists / General, Poetry, Subjects & Themes / Religious
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Art
Author
Gustave Doré
Book Series
Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
93-001907
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
All 50 of Doré's powerful illustrations for Milton's epic poem, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan. Appropriate quotes from the text are printed with each illustration., Gustave Doré's Romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem Paradise Lost, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan, were among his finest and most dramatic works. This volume presents superb reproductions of all 50 plates drawn by Doré and engraved in his studios for the original edition of Paradise Lost. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages supreme examples of the illustrator's art. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve, the Flood, Moses holding up the Ten Commandments, and the fearsome creatures Milton referred to as "Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire." The dreamlike, otherworldly quality Doré often brought to his work seems especially appropriate for Paradise Lost with its lofty spirit and epic events. Indeed, Doré's grand conception seems to realize perfectly Milton's own poetic version. Appropriate quotes from the text of Paradise Lost are printed alongside each illustration. A plot summary of the entire poem is also included., Gustave Dor 's Romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem Paradise Lost, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan, were among his finest and most dramatic works. This volume presents superb reproductions of all 50 plates drawn by Dor and engraved in his studios for the original edition of Paradise Lost. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages supreme examples of the illustrator's art. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve, the Flood, Moses holding up the Ten Commandments, and the fearsome creatures Milton referred to as "Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire." The dreamlike, otherworldly quality Dor often brought to his work seems especially appropriate for Paradise Lost with its lofty spirit and epic events. Indeed, Dor 's grand conception seems to realize perfectly Milton's own poetic version. Appropriate quotes from the text of Paradise Lost are printed alongside each illustration. A plot summary of the entire poem is also included.
LC Classification Number
NE650.D646A4 1993

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