![]() ![]() Dore's mastery of rendering the human body accurately gives power to his interpretations of Dante's descriptions, particularly in the Inferno section, but also in the Purgatorio and Paradiso images. ![]() The captions on the pictures are, however, in English translation, so no knowledge of the Italian language is required to enjoy these images! I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Dante, The Divine Comedy, Dore's work, or simply in looking at striking black and white images. I was first exposed to some of the images in a class on Dante, and I recently purchased this book as a gift for my sister-in-law who has studied Italian and Dante. In The Dor Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, Dor reproduces with excellent clarity Dante Alighieri's sublime poetic masterpiece in 135 plates. The images are good teaching tools, if you are covering all or part of the Divine Comedy with a class, but this book is also a good gift for someone who enjoys Dore's art, the Divine Comedy, or both. Gustave Dor's illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy are an unforgettable visual journey through nightmare landscapes of eternal damnation to the very core of Hell. The originals were also black and white-that is not a reduction to reduce production costs. They are good artistic efforts in the first place, and this particular collection does a good job in the reprinting. ![]() This collection reproduces Dore's plates of many scenes from Dante's Divine Comedy. French illustrator Gustave Dore (1833-83) began his prolific career at the age of 15, and his dramatic engravings have exercised an incalculable influence. ![]() Comments on Dore's Illustrations of the Divine Comedy ![]()
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