The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy @ richardeward.com

The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
by Gustave Dore
from Dover Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Dore Illustrations
  Book arrived in promised condition, and in a timely fashion. I would buy from this seller again.

• Skip this comic book
  This guy is pretty much in the same league as Jack Kirby. Whereas Kirby's all soft lines and images pancaked on the page, Dore looks like he's carving his cartoons into a tree. And all these scary demons and things look tired, like they've been running marathons all day. The victims kind of look like they're enjoying it, so I guess if you're into S&M, I could recommend it. Me, I prefer "Spawn" by Todd McFarlane. The Violator? Now that's a monster you can sink your eyeballs into. And I know it's like... more info

• An Excellent book for the Doré or Dante lover
  The quality of this book - along with an amazingly affordable price tag - quickly persuaded me to pick up a copy. Its really everything you could ask for in an art book;
  The pictures are all very big, but not overwhelming; Its easy to see minute detail, and the overall scope of the image. I actually blew up some of the prints in photoshop and printed them on huge poster paper for my room, while not sacrificing a drop of detail.
  Also, I had to put quite a good deal of pressure onto the spine of the... more info

• Absolutely Wonderful (Really 4 and a half stars)
  I have looked at a variety of Dante artists. Some well known and some are not. Suloni Robertson, John Flaxman, Willam Blake, Sandro Botticelli, Sandow Birk, Herb Roe. Do a google search to look at the works of some of these like Sandow Birk. There are some that are more obscure which in a way documents the Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. I'm not going to say who I don't like but Dore is the best. I am rather specific about artists. Dore makes the grade. He is good, really good and when you look at... more info

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