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Malan Dan - Gustave Dore Masterpieces Of Art - Hardcover
Malan Dan - Gustave Dore Masterpieces Of Art - Hardcover
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Description: An artist who worked across many media the multi - skilled Gustave Dor remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dante's Divine Comedy and even the Bible have hugely influenced the way we see many cultural and literary characters and still inspire today (David Beckham has a tattoo on his chest of Dor's The Agony in the Garden). This sumptuous new introduction to the artist focuses on these illustrations first introducing you to his life work and the rich seam of illustration history that he continued and ignited from Blake and Fuseli to today's newspaper comics before presenting a carefully curated thematic selection of his finest and most important engravings. From his vision of Jacob Wrestling with the Angel to Crossing the River Styx the work of this most prodigious and much borrowed - from artist is represented in glorious full - page reproductions.
Title: Gustave Dore Masterpieces Of Art
Author(s): Malan Dan
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Barcode: 9781804177860
Pages: 128 Pages, 84 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Series: Masterpieces of Art
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: An artist who worked across many media the multi - skilled Gustave Dor remains unequalled as a supremely talented illustrator whose detailed and imaginative engravings for major works of literature from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dante's Divine Comedy and even the Bible have hugely influenced the way we see many cultural and literary characters and still inspire today (David Beckham has a tattoo on his chest of Dor's The Agony in the Garden). This sumptuous new introduction to the artist focuses on these illustrations first introducing you to his life work and the rich seam of illustration history that he continued and ignited from Blake and Fuseli to today's newspaper comics before presenting a carefully curated thematic selection of his finest and most important engravings. From his vision of Jacob Wrestling with the Angel to Crossing the River Styx the work of this most prodigious and much borrowed - from artist is represented in glorious full - page reproductions.
Title: Gustave Dore Masterpieces Of Art
Author(s): Malan Dan
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Barcode: 9781804177860
Pages: 128 Pages, 84 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Series: Masterpieces of Art
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
