(Illustration from) Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ – Gustav Doré (1832-1883)
Doré’s woodcut illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost were completed in 1866.
In an era in which no man had ever flown, except in a balloon, this would have been a startling and dramatic image.
Still is.
Labels: Art
posted by Peter Cresswell at 12:02 am
3 Comments:
The correct term is falling. He's being cast out of heaven. :-)
Still a great work of art though.
Now that I know the context of this work, it really is quite something.
Like Goethe and Dante, Milton was canonized singlehandedly through his best work. Paradise Lost has that line by line virtuosity that Borges praised in Virgil.
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