![]() ![]() His illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy constitute one of his most highly regarded efforts and were Dore's personal favourites.The present volume reproduces with excellent clarity all 135 plates that Dore produced for The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. His Dore Bible was a treasured possession in countless homes, and his best-received works continued to appear through the years in edition after edition. Gustave Dore (1832-83) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. ![]() 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. ![]()
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