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| gustav doré, from dante's inferno |
gustave doré is my favorite romantic designer.
here are some of doré's famous illustrations.
divine comedy: paradise.
divine comedy: inferno.
let's make clear that doré was not a block-cutter, these are his drawings (or designs). at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.