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William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations: 102 Full-Color Plates (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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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.

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!

Unfortunately, my vote is absolutely negative. I expected the 102 illustrations in full color, but instead are much less complete responses. The others seem sketches or proofs, or incomplete works. Let's say there are 10 or 15 breathtaking .... but the rest

Purtroppo il mio voto è assolutamente negativo. Mi aspettavo le 102 illustrazioni in Full Color, ma invece sono molto meno

quelle complete. Le altre sembrano schizzi, o prove d'autore, o opere incomplete.

Diciamo che ce ne sono 10 o 15 mozzafiato....ma per il resto......