Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( UK : / ˈ d ɔːr eɪ / DOR -ay , US : / d ɔː ˈ r eɪ / dor- AY , French: [ɡystav dɔʁe] ; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker , illustrator , painter , comics artist , caricaturist , and sculptor . He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature , especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy . These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; 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.
16-562: [REDACTED] Look up doré in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dore or Doré may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Places [ edit ] Dore, South Yorkshire , England Dore and Totley , electoral ward that includes this village Abbey Dore , village in Herefordshire, England Dore, in the district of Gweedore , Ireland Dore Lake , Saskatchewan,
32-708: A Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1861. Doré's illustrations for the Bible (1866) were a great success, and in 1867 Doré had a major exhibition of his work in London. This exhibition led to the foundation of the Doré Gallery in Bond Street , London. In 1869, Blanchard Jerrold , the son of Douglas William Jerrold , suggested that they work together to produce a comprehensive portrait of London. Jerrold had obtained
48-585: A 1995 Indian Kannada language feature film directed by Shivamani Dore Abbey , monastery in Herefordshire, England Doré bar or dore bar, also known as doré bullion, a low-purity bar of gold produced at a mine site Dore Programme , brain training program for learning, attention, and social difficulties Doré Records , an American record label Doré v Barreau du Québec , a Supreme Court of Canada case Castle Dore , hillfort in Cornwall, England See also [ edit ] Door La Dorée ,
64-548: A French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor Jean Doré (1944–2015), Canadian politician Julien Doré (born 1982), French singer Marie-Joseph-Camille Doré (1831–1888), captain in the French navy Pierre Doré or Auratus (c. 1500–1559), French Dominican theologian First name [ edit ] Dore Gold (born 1953), Israeli diplomat Dore Schary (1905–1980), American writer and director Other uses [ edit ] Dore (film) or The Ruler ,
80-634: A commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dore . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dore&oldid=1218575495 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
96-1936: A hamlet in Canada La Doré, Quebec , a municipality of Quebec, Canada Dore-l'Église , France Mont-Dore , France Le Mont-Dore (New Caledonia) Rivers [ edit ] River Dore , Herefordshire, England Dore (river) , tributary river of the Allier in France Doré River , British Columbia, Canada Doré River, flowing into Doré Lake , Saskatchewan, Canada Lakes [ edit ] Lake Doré , Ontario, Canada Doré Lake , Saskatchewan, Canada Islands [ edit ] Dore Holm , Shetland Islands People [ edit ] Surname Dore [ edit ] Charlie Dore (born 1956), English songwriter Chris Dore , Australian journalist David Dore (1940–2016), Canadian ice skating official Elizabeth Dore , British historian of Latin America Jimmy Dore (born 1965), American comedian John Dore , Canadian basketball coach John Clark Dore (1822–1900), American educator and politician Jon Dore (born 1976), Canadian comedian and actor Julie Dore (born 1960), British politician Richard Dore (1749–1800), English lawyer and judge Ronald P. Dore (1925–2018), British sociologist Tim Dore (born 1973), American politician Tom Dore (born 1958), American sports announcer Valerie Dore (born 1963), Italian singer Surname Doré [ edit ] Alexander Doré (1923–2002), British actor André Doré (born 1958), former professional ice hockey player Armand Doré (1824–1882), French painter Daniel Doré (born 1970), former professional ice hockey right winger Edna Doré (1921–2014), British actress Gustave Doré (1832–1883),
112-569: A mysterious and deep vitality to chimeras, dreams, nightmares, intangible shapes bathed in light and shade, weirdly caricatured silhouettes and all the monsters of fantasy." H.P. Lovecraft drew inspiration from Doré's Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrations in his formative years. Pierre Dor%C3%A9 Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
128-543: A version of the Prisoners' Round in 1890, the year of his death. The book was a financial success, however, and Doré received commissions from other British publishers. Doré's later work included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge 's Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Milton 's Paradise Lost , Tennyson 's Idylls of the King , The Works of Thomas Hood , and The Divine Comedy . Doré's work also appeared in
144-465: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages dor%C3%A9 He created over 10,000 illustrations , the most important of which were copied using an electrotype process using cylinder presses , allowing very large print runs to be published simultaneously in many countries. Doré was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832. At
160-507: The 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes 's Don Quixote , and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza , became so famous that they influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe 's " The Raven ", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883. The government of France made him
176-705: The age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le journal pour rire . The illustrations of J. J. Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work. Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics , like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes incompris et mécontents (1851), Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851) and L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854). Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Cervantes , Rabelais , Balzac , Milton , and Dante . He also illustrated "Gargantua et Pantagruel" in 1854. In 1853 Doré
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#1732772209481192-441: The following list of works is not complete and it does not include his paintings, sculptures, and many of his journal illustrations: Doré's work received mixed reviews from contemporary art critics, but he was widely acclaimed by the general public. He was adored by many writers and poets, who felt he "brought their wildest dreams and fantasies to life". Théophile Gautier for example stated "Nobody better than this artist can give
208-603: The idea from The Microcosm of London produced by Rudolph Ackermann , William Pyne , and Thomas Rowlandson (published in three volumes from 1808 to 1810). Doré signed a five-year contract with the publishers Grant & Co that involved his staying in London for three months a year, and he received the vast sum of £10,000 a year for the project. Doré was celebrated for his paintings in his day, but his wood-engravings, like those he did for Jerrold, are where he excelled as an artist with an individual vision. The completed book London: A Pilgrimage , with 180 wood engravings,
224-467: The weekly newspaper The Illustrated London News . Doré never married and, following the death of his father in 1849, he continued to live with his mother, illustrating books until his death of a heart attack in Paris on January 23, 1883, following a short illness. At the time of his death Doré was working on illustrations for an edition of Shakespeare's plays . Doré was a prolific artist; thus
240-424: Was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron . This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated Bible . In 1856 he produced 12 folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew , which propagated longstanding antisemitic views of the time, for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Béranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845. In
256-463: Was published in 1872. It enjoyed commercial and popular success, but the work was disliked by some contemporary British critics, as it appeared to focus on the poverty that existed in parts of London. Doré was accused by The Art Journal of "inventing rather than copying." The Westminster Review claimed that "Doré gives us sketches in which the commonest, the vulgarest external features are set down." But they impressed Vincent van Gogh , who painted
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