![]() ![]() Seven years later, he began carving in cement.Īs a young man in 1847, he began working as a literary illustrator in Paris. His biographer, David Kerr, has pointed out that, as “a child prodigy, Doré received little formal artistic training, but his talents as a draughtsman were already apparent during his school years.”Īt the age of five he was a troublemaker of prodigious talent, playing pranks that were mature beyond his years. ![]() Doré was born in Strasbourg on January 6, 1832, and died in Paris on January 23, 1883.ĭoré is considered one of the most successful book illustrators of the late nineteenth century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians. Paul Gustave Doré was the second of three children born to Pierre Louis Christophe Doré, an engineer, and his wife Alexandrine Marie Anne Pluchart. ![]() Moreover, during one of his adventures, Langdon refers to Doré’s work Dandolo Preaching the Crusade. Robert Langdon, the main character in Dan Brown’s Inferno, being a renown Dante scholar, exhibited a Gustave Doré lithograph depicting a dark entrance to a tunnel carved into the face of an austere cliff during a conference hosted by one of the world’s oldest Dante societies-the Società Dante Alighieri Vienna. Paul Gustave Doré was a prolific French engraver, artist, illustrator, sculptor, and primarily, wood and steel carver. ![]()
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