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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: / ˈ d ɔːr eɪ / DOR-ay, US: / d ɔː ˈ r eɪ / dor-AY, French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor.
The cour des miracles as imagined by Gustave Doré in an illustration to The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Cour des miracles (French pronunciation: [kuʁ de miʁakl], "court of miracles") was a French term which referred to slum districts of Paris, France where the unemployed migrants from rural areas resided. They held "the usual refuge of all ...
The Divine Comedy ' s Empyrean, illustrated by Gustave Doré. In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean Heaven, Empyreal or simply the Empyrean, was the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle's natural philosophy).
Christ Leaving the Praetorium is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Gustave Doré, created between 1867 and 1872.It was the largest of his religious paintings, with the dimensions of 609 by 914 cm, and is considered to be the "the work of his life".
The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré.It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance.
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Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...
Plutus in Divina Commedia, in an engraving by Gustave Doré. " Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe" is the opening line of Canto VII of Dante Alighieri's Inferno.The line, consisting of three words, is famous for the uncertainty of its meaning, and there have been many attempts to interpret it.