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A01=Maria Antonietta Terzoli
A01=Sebastian Schutze
Author_Maria Antonietta Terzoli
Author_Sebastian Schutze
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AC
Category=NL-AG
COP=Germany
Discount=15
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=395
IMPN=Taschen GmbH
ISBN13=9783836555128
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20141120
POP=Cologne
Price_€100 to €200
PS=Active
PUB=Taschen GmbH
Subject=Art Treatments & Subjects
Subject=History Of Art/art & Design Styles
WG=4018
WMM=285

William Blake. The drawings for Dante''s Divine Comedy

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Hardback | English

By (author): Maria Antonietta Terzoli Sebastian Schutze

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante''s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul''s path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante''s masterwork, from pencil sketches to finished watercolors. Like Dante''s sweeping poem, Blake''s drawings range from scenes of infernal suffering to celestial light, from horrifying human disfigurement to the perfection of physical form. While faithful to the text, Blake also brought his own perspective to some of Dante''s central themes. Today, Blake''s illustrations, left in various stages of completion at the time of his death, are dispersed among seven different institutions. This TASCHEN edition brings these works together again, alongside key excerpts from Dante''s masterpiece. Two introductory essays consider Dante and Blake, as well as other major artists who have been inspired by The Divine Comedy, including Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Dore and Auguste Rodin. With a close reading of Blake''s illustrations, and 14 fold-out spreads to allow the most delicate of details to dazzle, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, punishment, revenge, and redemption. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 4018g
  • Dimensions: 285 x 395mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Nov 2014
  • Publisher: Taschen GmbH
  • Publication City/Country: Cologne, Germany
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783836555128
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