The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake (Fully Illustrated)
The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake (Fully Illustrated)

Author: William Blake

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 807484420X

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake (Fully Illustrated)" collects the some of the best of William Blake's unique and evocative artwork. William Blake (1757 - 1827) was an English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. His work was filled with religious visions rather than with subjects from everyday life. Blake's fame as an artist and engraver rests largely on a set of 21 copperplate etchings to illustrate the Book of Job in the Old Testament. However, he did much work for which other artists and engravers got the credit. Blake was a poor businessman, and he preferred to work on subjects of his own choice rather than on those that publishers assigned him. Blake is acclaimed one of England's great figures of art and literature and one of the most inspired and original painters of his time.

William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy

Author: Eric Pyle

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1476617023

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William Blake's series of illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy was his last major project and a summation of his religious and artistic beliefs. Blake intended to engrave this series, but it was unfinished at his death. The series includes seven partially complete engravings and 102 works in various stages of completion--some of the most beautiful pictures of his career. These pictures are not simple illustrations, but constitute a thorough reinterpretation and--in Blake's view--correction of Dante's poem. This book compares the two men's theological and artistic views and analyzes in detail the meaning of Blake's illustrations, for the first time introducing their theological and aesthetic exuberance to a modern audience.

William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. the Complete Drawings
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. the Complete Drawings

Author: Sebastian Schütze

Publisher: Taschen

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783836568630

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Discover William Blake's complete 102 illustrations for The Divine Comedy, with excerpts from Dante's epic poem. Featuring an intimate reading of Blake's extraordinary works and many close-up details, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, ...

William Blake
William Blake

Author: William Blake

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780500600252

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In his illuminated books,William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blakes twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blakes text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.

Drawings of William Blake
Drawings of William Blake

Author: William Blake

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1970-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780486223032

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The artist and poet are clearly revealed in these reproductions of Blake's pencil drawings

William Blake, His Art and Times
William Blake, His Art and Times

Author: David Bindman

Publisher: [New Haven, Conn.] : Yale Center for British Art ; [Toronto] : Art Gallery of Ontario

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the poet himself that Blake's meaning can be fully experienced. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now some 400 plates, drawn from The William Blake Trust's acclaimed six-volume Collected Edition, and reproduced under their supervision, provide for the first time ever in one volume what the London Review of Books hailed as "Sumptuous facsimiles . . . glorious colored pages . . . like peeping into a furnace of light through a crack in the door".