Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Known as 'the master of the fantastic', the great French artist Dore (1832-1883) produced some of the wildest, most evocative, and memorable illustrations of the past 150 years.This new original collection draws together for the first time Dore's best work on the theme of knights and their adventures — battles, damsels, dragons, fantastic landscapes, and more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 241) Аннотация: Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the appropriate verses from the King James version of the Bible.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Slithery sea serpents, dreadful dragons, and other dramatic images of fabulous creatures assure this collection's instant and ongoing success. An invaluable source of royalty-free art for illustrators and designers, the volume includes reproductions of Dore's illustrations for The Bible, Paradise Lost, Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy, and additional works.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: One of the greatest book illustrators of all time, the19th-century artist Gustave Doré was particularly noted for his brilliantly imaginative scenes of fantasy and the fantastic. Among his most frequently portrayed characters were angels. This collection includes dozens of dramatic illustrations depicting Doré's celestial beings, as created for such great works of literature as the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Complete collection of drawings from the 1872 classic by France's most celebrated graphic. Included are amazingly perceptive sketches of workaday London, busy marketplaces, the Christy Minstrels, thieves gambling, the Devil's Acre in Westminster, flower girls, waifs and strays, a wedding at the Abbey, prisoners in the Newgate exercise yard, and many other scenes.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Dore's sympathy to Cervantes' satire was so complete that, of numerous interpretations by many artists, his has become standard. Here are 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Comprising the finest plates from the great illustrator's work, this collection features outstanding engravings from such literary classics as Milton's Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy by Dante, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Sue's The Wandering Jew, and many others. Captions.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Magnificent compilation of all 100 original plates from Michaud's classic History of the Crusades, Includes The War Cry of the Crusaders, The Massacre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Baptism of Infidels, The Battle of Lepanto, and many more. Powerful, striking royalty-free illustrations. Captions.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Chivalry and romance of the Middle Ages, dramatically and powerfully depicted in 36 splendid illustrations, recapture the romance of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the love story of Lancelot and Guinevere, the tale of the fair Elaine, the wily Vivien and more. Accompanied by appropriate quotes from Tennyson's poem.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This volume presents superb royalty-free reproductions of all 50 plates Dore created for a 19th-century edition of Paradise Lost. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from Heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve and the Flood.
Скачать книгу (размер 774 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 153) Аннотация: Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 108 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Damsels, knights, grotesque monsters. 208 black-and-white illustrations. Captions, introduction.
Скачать книгу (размер 713 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 141) Аннотация: 135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante's most highly regarded works — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation.