The Doré Bible Illustrations E-Book

Gustave Doré

• Herausgeber: Dover Publications
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Nowhere but in the Bible were dramatic textual material and the artistry of Gustave Doré more perfectly matched. The Book of Books seemed to unleash a new power of creation in Doré not apparent in his previous work. In the Creation scenes, the horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, the plates depicting the life of Jesus — many of which have now become the standard iconography — and finally the vision of the New Jerusalem, Doré reached the fullest expressions of his extraordinary talent.This book collects all 241 plates — long out of print — that Doré executed for the Bible. In these plates, reproduced from outstanding early editions, the artist not only captures the dramatic intensity of the Scriptures, but sustains it longer than any other single artist was able to do. In addition, Doré reimagined all the scenes, so that what he produced was not a mere reworking of what centuries of other artists had already done, but a new and fresh visual interpretation of the Bible.Each plate is accompanied by the verses from the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible that the scene depicts, and an Introduction by Millicent Rose covers Doré's life and art in general. This is a sumptuous book that everyone, from those interested in Scripture to lovers of great art, will be proud to possess.

Leseprobe

The Dore Bible Illustrations

Gustave Dore

Copyright © 1974 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights-reserved.

The Doré Bible Illustrations is a new work, published for the first time by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1974. Two hundred twenty-nine illustrations are reproduced from The Holy Bible, with Illustrations by Gustave Doré, published in parts by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, in London and New York, about 1866. Twelve additional illustrations (Plates 14, 21, 31, 68, 128, 162, 169, 177, 198, 202, 238, and 240) are reproduced from the sixth printing of Die Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments verdeutscht von D. Martin Luther. Mit zweihundert und dreissig Bildern von Gustav Doré, published in two volumes by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, in Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, about 1875. For the Dover edition, Biblical quotations to accompany the plates have been selected from the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible. A new introduction, written by Millicent Rose especially for the Dover edition, has also been added.

DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-87048

International Standard Book Number

9780486131931

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Table of Contents

Title PageCopyright PageIntroduction to the Dover Edition

Introduction to the Dover Edition

The Bible as illustrated by Gustave Doré was first published in the French version in 1865, and within the next few years other editions followed, in all the main European languages and in Hebrew. This work is of prime importance in the history of nineteenth-century art: in a period when illustrated books flourished as never before, the most famous of illustrators was working on the great best-seller. In the mid-1860’s Doré was at the height of his fame and his extraordinary fecundity. As he worked on the two hundred forty-one plates for the Book of Books, he called forth his highest powers.