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This is a beautiful book that really lets you see Blake's creative process: the illustrations range from loose sketches and incomplete paintings, to articulately finished works of art. This book does NOT contain the text of the Divine Comedy, but each plate lists the line numbers it illustrates so one can easily use it while reading Dante's masterpiece. I don't know what the customer who wrote in Italian's complaint is (since I don't understand Italian), but I give this book a top recommendation to all lovers of Blake's art.
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This book of 102 plates is a grand collection and shows the work of Blake in various stages of completion from rough sketches, to watercolor wash, to etching, to full multi-colored complete watercolors, and to full multi-colored, multi-plate prints. Thus you see impressions and ideas in early stages of execution all the way to fully realized expressive works. For the most part, the works are magnificent. Blake was a fine draftsman and the graphic illustrative qualities of his work are strong. He has somewhat of an academic style in regard to drawing or painting the human body with the male, often nude, drawn with flowing manneristic precision and revealing a hyper-muscular approach to the male body. In other words, his male figures are often nude muscular fellows with flowing expressive movement. Some of the less developed works are exquisite in their early stages, such as the illustration of Virgil, at the request of Beatrice, assisting Dante in his quest for divine wisdom, an image of two figures cradled, protected, by huge flowing trees. Blake loves monsters and he really gets the opportunity to let his imagination go with the many demons and monsters and mythological characters that Virgil and Dante encounter. Whereas Blake can create fragile, pastel, impressions he can also create dark contrasting areas of great dynamism. An image of the lustful dead being swept across the dark indigo night sky is a fantastic image. Any artist would be content to have 10 masterpieces in their artistic career. Blake had hundreds of successful master works. The unfinished works feel very contemporary, such as a watercolor in mauve and yellow ochre where Dante asks Virgil to explain the influence of Fortune on humans.Read more ›
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I was a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy as a birthday present for a friend who mentioned they would like to have one with the William Blake illustrations. It's hard to the actual Divine Comedy with these illustrations, but then I stumbled upon this. It's nice because you have all of the illustrations (even ones unfinished or not in the original edition of the book with his illustrations). Since my friend already had a copy, I decided to buy this! He loved it and I'm glad I bought it. The quality of the pictures is excellent. A great coffee table book for sure!
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Start a collection of illustrations of Dante-- It will improve the conversations you have about the books--it really does give insight into how Dante is perceived during different time periods by different people.
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These are first of all fascinating illustrations from one of the great poets and artists of the last three centuries or so. The reproductions are finely done, and this is a real bargain at the price. A good intro to Blake's work, but for beginners I would recommend a good facsimile of Songs of Innocence and Experience.
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Yes, you get what you pay for here. I have to wonder why so many sketches were included. Were they deemed more expressive than a completed counterpart? All work here seems clearer than the facsimile versions of Urizen and the Marriage of Heaven and Hell purchased at the same time.
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This item: William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations: 102 Full-Color Plates (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
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