The Divine Comedy illustrated by Gustave Doré

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The Divine Comedy illustrated by Gustave Doré

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The poem "The Divine Comedy" has been a symbol of spiritual rebirth for seven centuries. Meanwhile, at the time of writing in 1307, Dante Alighieri was expelled from Florence. Finding no help from the living, the former politician and thinker called on the dead to stand up for him and created a work in Italian that glorified the national literature of Italy forever. Combining features of both ancient and Christian culture. Comedy, along with Virgil's Aeneid and the Bible, is still considered prophetic to this day. In his vision, Dante, accompanied by the greatest playwright of antiquity - Virgil - descended into the underworld, where he passed through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. And the lower the travelers descended into Hell, the more the hero Dante was imbued with sympathy for sinners - the forgotten and glorious heroes of antiquity. In this vision filled with symbols, everything: an animal, a stone, and even a person, plays its role destined by divine Providence. After more than 500 years, Dante's melancholy visions were transferred to visual images that frighten with their naturalism, the artist Gustave Dore. Inspired by medieval images, paintings by Botticelli and frescoes by Michelangelo, the romantic Dore created about 1855 engravings for the poem from 1869 to 150. The first edition with illustrations for the part "Hell" was completely sold out immediately after the release of the print run in 1861. At the same time, Gustave Dore's friend Theophile Gauthier wrote: “There is no other artist who could illustrate Dante better than Dore. He has that visionary look that is inherent in the Poet. The artist creates an atmosphere of hell: underground mountains and abysses, a gloomy sky where the sun never shines. He conveys this unearthly climate with amazing persuasiveness.

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Publication language: Russian

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