The divine comedy gustave dore5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The process of the emancipation of Czech theatre in the second half of the 19th century, culminating in the opening of the National theatre in 1883, comprised a number of creative attempts which aimed at providing the Czech audiences with original dramatic texts. The pictorial comment to the Inferno opens up new aesthetic values of the poem and represents one of the characteristic forms of its figurative vision at the present stage. The graphic language of Doré reveals a strong influence from the illustrations by John Martin (1789-1854) to Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost. Particular attention is paid to the specifics of the master's creative method and his connection with the tendencies of the romantic art of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), William Blake (1757-1827), and a group of German and Austrian artists called the "Nazarenes". The main objective is to study the synthesis of the visual and conceptual plan of the Commedia. ![]() The author carries out an image-stylistic analysis of the graphic artists solution. ![]() The article deals with the interpretation of the literary idea of "Inferno" - the first part of the Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) Divine Comedy as realised in the exemplary series of the French engraver, painter and master of the art books of the 19th century Gustave Dore (1832-1883). ![]()
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