Description
Product ID: | 9780486243009 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | CN |
Series: | Dover Fine Art, History of Art |
Title: | Dore'S Illustrations for "Don Quixote |
Authors: | Author: Gustave Dore |
Page Count: | 160 |
Subjects: | Individual artists, art monographs, Individual artists, art monographs, Illustration and commercial art, Illustration & commercial art |
Description: | 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions. Doré''s sympathy to Cervantes'' satire was so complete that, of numerous interpretations by many artists, his has become standard. Here are 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions. |
Imprint Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
Publisher Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2000-02-01 |