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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 Valley of Tears (French: La Vallée de Larmes) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Gustave Doré, from 1883. It is very large (413.5cm x 627cm). It was bought by the city of Paris in 1984 and is currently in the collection of the Petit Palais. [1] [2] It was one of a great number of works Doré completed on biblical themes.
London: A Pilgrimage is a book first published by Grant & Co in 1872, with text by the English journalist William Blanchard Jerrold and illustrations by the French artist Gustave Doré. It was originally published in 13 parts, with 191 pages and illustrations, and then serialised in Harper's Weekly. It has been described as a populist picture book.
In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell, Inferno, Canto 34. Illustration by Gustave Doré. In Dante's Inferno, Satan is portrayed as a giant demon, frozen up to the waist in ice at the center of Hell. Satan has three faces and a pair of bat-like wings affixed under each chin.
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 ...
Malcolm Lowry paralleled Dante's descent into hell with Geoffrey Firmin's descent into alcoholism in his epic novel Under the Volcano (1947). In contrast to the original, Lowry's character explicitly refuses grace and "chooses hell," though Firmin does have a Dr. Vigil as a guide (and his brother, Hugh Firmin, quotes the Comedy from memory in ...
Gustave Doré, The Heavenly Hosts, c. 1866, illustration to Paradise Lost. Key to the ambitions of Paradise Lost as a poem is the creation of a new kind of epic , one suitable for English, Christian morality rather than polytheistic Greek or Roman antiquity.