Gustav dore illustrations

Gustave Doré was a 19th-century French printmaker, painter, comics artist, illustrator, and sculptor. He popularized wood-engraved illustrations and created around 10,000 of them.

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Gustave Dore (1832-1883) created the most popular illustrations and engravings in history. He reminds me of the top character actors of all time—you know their work, but you don't know their names. Gustave Dore was the most famous living artist in the world during his lifetime.

9 Choirs of Angels.

Of all the myriad characters in the Bible, nobody has a worse reputation than Satan. He's described as a serpent, snake, dragon, and the literal embodiment of ...

Gustav Dore, 1867, via The Golden Age of Illustration.

You will probably recognize the tales for which these engravings were created. (if not, just pass your mouse over the images). What a fantastically talented artist. Via finsbry's Flickr set.

Our visual image of Victorian London is largely fixated on its sordidness—cramped streets, dark alleys, desolate slums, overcrowding, and illicit dens. Two people are responsible for creating in our heads such pictures of destitution and filth—one is Charles Dickens, whose works largely revolved around grinding poverty, and the other is French illustrator Gustave Doré. Doré (1832 – 1883) was a prolific engraver, artist, illustrator, and sculptor, who became very popular both in France and…