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Publisher's NoteList of Plates--The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
I'm reading the book AND looking at these illustrations as I go. I've never read it, and I thought it was time to go to "hell" as it were!
I'm a fan of Dore's etchings and was looking for a while to buy a nice art album. This is not that. To be honest this is the worst album I have ever seen. The paper is is telephone book quality and the printing resolution is garbage, most of the digital images give you the better detail. This book has no purpose whatsoever, but I might be using it to prop my table.
I began reading "The Divine Comedy" and found the Dore illustrations to be very helpful as I read each canto and thought about its meaning and impact. Dore captures so much in each illustration.HIGHLY recommended to read alongside the 100DaysOfDante.com readings!
inspirational
from the Publisher's Note:"Dore first seriously entertained the idea of illustrating Dante's DIVINE COMEDY in a large folio edition in 1855. Although he could read no Italian, and probably relied on the French prose translation of Pier Angelo Fiorentino which later appeared with his illustrations along with the original Italian text, his study of the masterpiece was thorough. Work on the first section, the INFERNO, began in 1857. When he was finished, he found that no publisher was willing to un...
I love the work of Gustave Doré and have wanted to look through this for a while, especially after I read La Divina Commedia in Italian back in August. Gustave Doré's work is by far my favourite illustrations for Dante's La Divina Commedia.
I love, love Dore’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy. They really helped my imagination as I journeyed through the work. I love his style, beginning with the grittiness of hell through his hitting an impossibly high note with his Empyrean just as our Pilgrim does. His illustrations have influenced my imagination of the Beatific Vision more than any other work of art, save the Comedy itself.
A nice companion to reading Dan Brown's "Inferno." Summertime reading as the season unofficially comes to the end.
Outstanding. Definitive. Perfect.
very interesting
I'm only familiar with scenes from the Inferno, I haven't gotten around to reading Purgatorio or Paradiso. The Inferno plates helped my understanding of some scenes. Doré's imagination elucidates the creatures of the Divine Comedy, at least as far as the medium can take us. A plate of interest is the one exhibited on the cover and page 58, with men tearing themselves open and one (Bertram de Born) holding his head like a lantern. Click here to see it. There's one severed arm clinging to Dante's
Batushka beautifully complements Doré’s cadaveric illustrations.
Vivified Dante's poetry and imagination in ways the text(s) I read didn't. NOW, maybe, I can truly appreciate the sage of Florence...
HOLY SHIT! This book is the perfect companion to anyone who is reading Dante's Commedia, and is struggling to picture Dante's world in their head. Gustave Doré (1832–83) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the 19th century. His "Doré Bible" was a treasured possession in countless middle-class homes, and his best-received works continued to appear throughout the years. His wood-engravings for Dante's Commedia constitute one of his most highly regarded efforts and were Doré's personal f...
The Dore woodblocks are exquisitely detailed and simply stunning. These works definitely make an impression.
I don't think I could have made it through the Divine Comedy without having this book to, pun fully intended, illustrate many of the key moments and characters for me. Dore's illustrations are beautiful, revolting, intriguing and mezmerizing- you find new things in them every time you look through them, and if you're also currently reading the Divine Comedy, as I was when I purchased this book, they are arranged in the order in which they correspond to the text, making for a nice break when plou...
Magnificent.
Beautiful, gorgeous, and a great companion to the Divine Comedy (especially the Inferno).
While I don't have much to say in this case since I am not an art critic I will simply comment that I am a huge fan of Dore's illustrations and I was extremely amazed when I first saw them. The illustrations capture so much of the essence of the poem that you would have thought that Dante personally commissioned Dore to draw these. My personal favorite of these is the Celestial Rose (From Canto 31 of the Paradisio): My first time using an image in my review.
