Gustave Dor Maria Starodubtseva Ph51 Lucifer is Cast

Gustave Doré Maria Starodubtseva Ph-51 Lucifer is Cast Out of Heaven, J. Milton’s “Paradise Lost” (1865 -66)

Contents • Childhood • “Journal pour rire” • Creative work • Main works – François Rabelais – Dante’s “Divine Comedy” – Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” – The Bible • Some details • References Enide and The Countess, A. Tennyson’s "Idylls of the King"

Doré, (Louis Auguste) Paul Gustave (6 Jan. 1832 - 23 Jan. 1883) • Born in Strasbourg, Elsase • Parents: Pierre-Louis. Christophe Doré (engineer) and Alexandrine Pluchare • At the age of five drew on every piece of paper he could find • Caricatured parents, friends and teachers • Studied at the Lycée Charlemagne in Bourg-en. Bresse

“Le Journal Pour Rire” (Paris, 1848 51) • Gustave came to Paris at 1847 • A 3 -year contract: a drawing a week for Charles Philipon’s “Journal Pour Rire” • Caricatures in lithography technique A Great Exhibition of 1851

From caricature to illustration • Rested fame on wood engravings in 1852 • Began from cheap editions • Self-education – Regularly visited: • art workshops • the Louvre – Studied engravings in the Bibliothéque Nationale Lafontaine’s “The Grasshopper and the Ant” (1867) • Drew in romantic style with: – attention to detail – amazing imagery – accuracy in depicting human figures

“Gargantua and Pantagruel” (1854) • Illustrations full of grotesque and irony • Human and bestial mixed • New type of illustrated book: prints and text are closely bounded • Alternation of picture size to show composition peculiarities of the work

«DIVINE COMEDY» (1961 -69) • Mysterious atmosphere of illustrations • Each illustration as a separate picture Hell, Dante’s “Divine Comedy” (1861)

DIVINE COMEDY: Hell (1861) • Michelangelo's tradition in drawing of hell • Visual effect by peculiarities of composition and light • Dark key • Narrow space full of sinners’ figures

Divine Comedy: Purgatory • “Purgatory”s key is lighter than “Hell”s • Wide landscape with forest chiket and clear night sky

Divine Comedy: Paradise (1869) • Illustrations are full of dazzle glitter • Dante’s atmosphere of the poem

Don Quixote (1862 -63) • Ridicule of knight novels (nonromantic tradition) • Predomination of Contour • Spanish nature and mode of life • Considered to be the best illustrations of “Don Quixote”

The Bible (1864 -66) • A group of engravers around Doré • A little chained and academic Illustration • Two types of prints: – The Old Testament – background atmosphere predominate New Jerusalem (The Old Testament) – The New Testament – dryly, lack of spontaneous vivacity

Some details about Doré The Death-Fires Danced at Night, S. T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1875) • Phenomenal memory (drew without nature) • Very prolific – woodcutts for over 90 books • Could gain 10 000 francs per morning making about 20 drawings • Wanted to be a painter, but critics didn’t receive him • Could have illustrated “Demon” and “Ruslan and Lyudmila”

References • • www. bibliadore. com www. wikipedia. org www. artnet. com www. cgfa. dotsrc. org www. all-art. org www. doreillustrations. com www. artpassions. net Ch. Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty” (1861)

Gustave Doré Maria Starodubtseva Ph-51 The 2 nd Crusaders See the Remains of the 1 st Crusaders, “The History of the Crusaders” (1875)