Monday, August 28, 2006

Gustave Dore'

I recently bought a book of all the illustrations for Dante's "Divine Comedy" by the 19th century artist Gustave Dore'. I'm a huge fan of engravings, and this is as good as it gets.
I've not previously looked into Dore's work. He's super neat. He illustrated soemthing like 400 books in his career, including "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "the Raven", various fairy tales and the mother fuckin holy bible. I think his most interesting stuff is the dark stuff, but I'm sort of goth at heart. Look:



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