PDF⋙ Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Gustave Doré
Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Gustave Doré Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Gustave Doré PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Gustave Doré's Romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem Paradise Lost, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan, were among his finest and most dramatic works. This volume presents superb reproductions of all 50 plates drawn by Doré and engraved in his studios for the original edition of Paradise Lost. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages supreme examples of the illustrator's art. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve, the...