The Doré Bible Illustrations

The Doré Bible Illustrations
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-09-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486131939

Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus, 241 plates in all.

Scenes from the Bible

Scenes from the Bible
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2007
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780572033941

This beautiful introduction includes 93 well-known, dramatic and beautiful scenes from the Old Testament, 81 from the New Testament and 10 from the Apocrypha. Here is the plague of darkness, Jonah cast forth by the whale, and the more gentle images from the New Testament the annunciation and Jesus? baptism.The text gives the reader a wonderful introduction to the poetic language of the King James Bible, whilst modern explanation tells the larger story. A wonderful gift contender most beautifully illustrated by the great master of his art.

The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-09-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486129934

These 135 fantastic scenes depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise.

Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades

Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486138119

All 100 original plates from 19th-century classic, including The Massacre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Baptism of Infidels, The Battle of Lepanto, many more. Magnificent, royalty-free illustrations with captions.

Treasury of Bible Illustrations

Treasury of Bible Illustrations
Author: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0486155765

Painstakingly reproduced from a rare volume of German engravings, this splendid work comprises all of the Bible's best-loved, most-quoted stories. Imaginative illustrations depict 105 episodes from the Old Testament and 74 scenes from the New Testament, accompanied by a citation of chapter and verse and the King James Version of the text.

Doré's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost"

Doré's Illustrations for
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486134032

All 50 of Doré's powerful illustrations for Milton's epic poem, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan. Appropriate quotes from the text are printed with each illustration.

Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote

Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486136949

190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.

Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: FilRougeViceversa
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 3966619318

"IN the midway of this our mortal life,I found me in a gloomy wood, astrayGone from the path direct: and e'en to tellIt were no easy task, how savage wildThat forest, how robust and rough its growth,Which to remember only, my dismay...