Take a closer look at William Blake's illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Read a summary and analysis of sections from Dante's epic poem and listen to recordings of each section.

Blake’s interest in Dante dates back to the years 1780-1785, when two preliminary drawings based on Dante’s Ugolino were executed by him for the twelfth engraving of his work, For Children: The Gates of Paradise, published in 1793. The engraving depicts the episode of Count Ugolino, shown in prison surrounded by his four starving children.

Blake's originality as an illustrator of the Divine Comedy lies in his literary and visionary approach to the text. One of the ways he maintains a continuity of narrative throughout the series is by consistently showing Dante dressed in red (denoting experience) and …

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 ...

Poet, artist, and visionary William Blake (1757–1827) was one of the most inventive visual interpreters of Dante. This was in spite of the fact that Blake took up the subject intensively only very late in life, and further that his expressed personal belief in a universally forgiving God set him deeply at odds with Dante’s vision of an ...

An analysis of William Blake's painting "Beatrice addressing Dante from the Car" and it's visual rendering of both the prophetic nature and transcendental quality of Canto XXIX in Dante's "Purgatory"

2019年9月13日 · Blake created 102 drawings for the book before he died, leaving the project unfinished. They rank alongside the great artist’s illustrations of Chaucer, his oil painting, like The Ghost of a Flea, and that glorious metaphysical, satirical drawing of Sir Issac Newton sat on the sea bed conspiring to “unweave the rainbow”.

Written in the early fourteenth century, this epic poem recounts Dante’s imaginary pilgrimage through Hell and Purgatory to Paradise. Commissioned by his last patron, John Linnell, Blake...