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Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney to Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
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Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865[[http://upload.[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] jpg such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney to Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
tales. See also [[ReferencedBy/GustaveDore his Referenced By page]].
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!!Gustave Doré in popular culture:
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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Makima has a print of Lucifer's fall from ''Paradise Lost'' framed in her apartment. The anime adds another Doré print to her office, this one from ''The Divine Comedy''.
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* Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis''.
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* His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/ac/c4/9eacc49fc714b38866261231ac71bfb8.jpg painting]] Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by Doré's ''[[https://foliojournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/figure-2-paradise-lost-j-milton-g-dore.jpg?w=700&h=902 Paradise Lost]]'' (1866).
* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
* The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
* Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
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* "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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* ''WebComic/{{Academia}}'': Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
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* The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Makima has a print of Lucifer's fall from ''Paradise Lost'' framed in her apartment. The anime adds another Doré print to her office, this one from ''The Divine Comedy''.
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* Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis''.
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* His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/ac/c4/9eacc49fc714b38866261231ac71bfb8.jpg painting]] Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by Doré's ''[[https://foliojournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/figure-2-paradise-lost-j-milton-g-dore.jpg?w=700&h=902 Paradise Lost]]'' (1866).
* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
* The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
* Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
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* "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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* ''WebComic/{{Academia}}'': Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
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* The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Makima has a print of Lucifer's fall from ''Paradise Lost'' framed in her apartment. The anime adds another Doré print to her office, this one from ''The Divine Comedy''.
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* Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis''.
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/ac/c4/9eacc49fc714b38866261231ac71bfb8.jpg painting]] Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by Doré's ''[[https://foliojournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/figure-2-paradise-lost-j-milton-g-dore.jpg?w=700&h=902 Paradise Lost]]'' (1866).
* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
* The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
* Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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* ''WebComic/{{Academia}}'': Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
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* The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Makima has a print of Lucifer's fall from ''Paradise Lost'' framed in her apartment. The anime adds another Doré print to her office, this one from ''The Divine Comedy''.
* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Makima has a print of Lucifer's fall from ''Paradise Lost'' framed in her apartment. The anime adds another Doré print to her office, this one from ''The Divine Comedy''.
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* TheLostWoods: Doré was a master in drawing dark, mysterious woods, as seen in his illustrations of the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'' and ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen''.
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* FairyTales: Doré is mostly associated with his illustrations of fairy tales, even though he only did one of those.
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* CrucialCross: ''The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism'' sees an ocean of demons, false gods, and idols driven into the darkness by the light produced by Christ's cross.
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* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/ac/c4/9eacc49fc714b38866261231ac71bfb8.jpg painting]] Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by ''[[https://foliojournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/figure-2-paradise-lost-j-milton-g-dore.jpg?w=700&h=902 Paradise Lost]]'' (1866).
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* His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/ac/c4/9eacc49fc714b38866261231ac71bfb8.jpg painting]] Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by Doré's ''[[https://foliojournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/figure-2-paradise-lost-j-milton-g-dore.jpg?w=700&h=902 Paradise Lost]]'' (1866).
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/ac/c4/9eacc49fc714b38866261231ac71bfb8.jpg painting]] Lex Luthor has in his living room is inspired by Doré's ''[[https://foliojournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/figure-2-paradise-lost-j-milton-g-dore.jpg?w=700&h=902 Paradise Lost]]'' (1866).
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of these classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French graphical artist, painter, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of these classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this these classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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!! Gustave Doré in popular culture:
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
** "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
** His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
!! Gustave Doré in popular culture:
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
** "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
** His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
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!!Gustave Doré in popular culture:
* Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis''.
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* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
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* Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
** "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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* "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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* ''WebComic/{{Academia}}'': Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
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** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
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* TheLostWoods: Doré was a master in drawing dark, mysterious woods, as seen in his illustrations of the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'' and ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''.
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* TheLostWoods: Doré was a master in drawing dark, mysterious woods, as seen in his illustrations of the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'' and ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''.''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen''.
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Gustave Dore's wood-carved illustrations often have one intense source of light standing in contrast to a deeply dark environment, all without any color. Take his illustration of [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/gallery/0122buonconte.jpg Buonconte's death]] in the ''Purgatorio'', where a bright flash of lightning and a white angel stand in contrast to a stormy night, a black ocean, and a demon covered entirely in shadow.
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* PstandardPsychicPstance: Dante holds his hand to his forehead in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/gallery/0505marco.jpg one illustration]] to show the audience that he's just had a vision.
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* SpiderLimbs: The illustration of [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/gallery/0307arachne.jpg the Proud]] shows Arachne not as a normal-sized spider, but as a nude human woman with six spider-legs below her arms. They hold her up as she falls to the ground in humiliation.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Dore depicts Mary Magdalene making her repentance towards a dismembered skull.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Dore depicts Mary Magdalene making her Magdalene's repentance towards by showing her pouring her heart out to a dismembered skull.
* {{Autocannibalism}}: The illustration of Plutus from ''Inferno'' shows the god of greed biting his own hands in his madness.
* BodyOfBodies: His ''Inferno'' illustration of the Second Circle shows the bodies of the lustful stuck together, flying through the air in one giant, twisting mass like a worm of the sky.
* BodyOfBodies: His ''Inferno'' illustration of the Second Circle shows the bodies of the lustful stuck together, flying through the air in one giant, twisting mass like a worm of the sky.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/1213.jpg Mighty Nimrod]] bears a king's crown and warrior's horn to remind him and the audience of his great ambitions, but the chain tying him to the bottom of Hell shows how far down to Earth the once-great hunter has been brought.
* CurtainCamouflage: Dore's Francesa and Paolo decide to share their adulterous kiss in front of the one pair of curtains in creation that have Francesca's husband behind them, allowing him to catch them in the middle of the affair and allow death to do them part.
* DramaticWind: Dore's illustration of Dante's swoon has his mentor Virgil nearly hidden by his cloak blowing through the hellish winds, translating Virgil's silence in that episode into visual obscurity.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Dore makes nearly all the souls in his illustrations of ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' fully nude. While most of them are too busy writhing against rocks and walls to show naughty bits, a few of the nude damned/penitents (like in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/0605avarice.jpg this one]]) have their masculinity in view, even if not in incredible detail.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Dore makes nearly all the souls GoodWingsEvilWings: The Furies in his illustrations of ''Inferno'' are given featherless bat-wings by Dore that aren't described in the poem itself. A few pages later, Dore illustrates an angel with bright, fluffy bird-wings to let you know he's good and ''Purgatorio'' fully nude. While most of them the Furies are too busy writhing against rocks and walls to show naughty bits, a few of the nude damned/penitents (like in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/0605avarice.jpg this one]]) have their masculinity in view, even if not in incredible detail.demonic.
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* LockedInTheDungeon: [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/1218.jpg Count Ugolino]] is trapped in a stone room with barely any light to see his surviving sons starve to death in his arms and nowhere to escape the dead ones' rotting corpses.
* LosingYourHead: Dore did two illustrations of Bertran de Born, a schismatic damned to repeated decapitation for eternity. In one image, Bertran stands on the edge of a boulder and holds out his head to talk to a rare visitor, while another image shows Bertran sadly holding his head on his lap as he sits down.
* LosingYourHead: Dore did two illustrations of Bertran de Born, a schismatic damned to repeated decapitation for eternity. In one image, Bertran stands on the edge of a boulder and holds out his head to talk to a rare visitor, while another image shows Bertran sadly holding his head on his lap as he sits down.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Dore makes nearly all the souls in his illustrations of ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' fully nude. While most of them are too busy writhing against rocks and walls to show naughty bits, a few of the nude damned/penitents (like in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/0605avarice.jpg this one]]) have their masculinity in view, even if not in incredible detail.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-dore/the-centaurs-nessus The illustration of the Seventh Circle of Hell]] puts the centaurs and the damned at the forefront while the action of the protagonists is relegated to the distant background, where Virgil summons the centaurs to come guide the duo through the river of blood.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-dore/the-centaurs-nessus The illustration of the Seventh Circle of Hell]] puts the centaurs and the damned at the forefront while the action of the protagonists is relegated to the distant background, where Virgil summons the centaurs to come guide the duo through the river of blood.
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* PlantPerson: Even though suicides in ''Inferno'' were described as being fully [[{{Transflormation}} Transflormed]] into trees, Dore illustrates them as persons who have had their limbs turned into branches and their skin transformed into bark. All of the suicide-trees appear contorted, pained, and miserable at their fate.
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* FullFrontalNudity: Dore makes nearly all the souls in his illustrations of ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' fully nude. While most of them are too busy writhing against rocks and walls to show naughty bits, a few of the nude damned/penitents (like in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/0605avarice.jpg this one]]) have their gonads in view, even if not in incredible detail.
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* FullFrontalNudity: MaleFrontalNudity: Dore makes nearly all the souls in his illustrations of ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' fully nude. While most of them are too busy writhing against rocks and walls to show naughty bits, a few of the nude damned/penitents (like in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/0605avarice.jpg this one]]) have their gonads masculinity in view, even if not in incredible detail.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Dore depicts Mary Magdalene making her repentance towards a dismembered skull.
* TheArmiesOfHeaven: The angels under Christ in ''The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism'' are armed with swords and shields as they chase the defeated gods into an obscure abyss.
* TheArmiesOfHeaven: The angels under Christ in ''The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism'' are armed with swords and shields as they chase the defeated gods into an obscure abyss.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury and TwoDecadesBehind: Doré didn't make much illustrations about his own time period, preferring to draw stories taking place in the romantic/mythological past.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury BoredWithInsanity: Dore's illustration of ''Inferno'' Canto 34 shows the Devil trapped at the bottom of Hell enduring the worst pain imaginable for the nine thousandth year with his his head leaning on one hand and TwoDecadesBehind: his face filled with nothing more than apathy.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Doré didn't make much illustrations about his own time period, preferring to draw stories taking place in the romantic/mythologicalpast. past.
* BrokenBird: The angel in ''The Enigma'' is in agony over the death around the battlefield and leans on the mighty sphinx for support.
* DeathOfAChild: ''[[http://catholic-resources.org/Dore/Matt02c.jpg Massacre of the Innocents]]'' gratuitously depicts soldiers ripping babies from their mothers and skewering them with swords.
* DeathOfTheOldGods: ''The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism'' shows Zeus and the pagan gods falling into obscurity to be replaced by Jesus and His cross.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Doré didn't make much illustrations about his own time period, preferring to draw stories taking place in the romantic/mythological
* BrokenBird: The angel in ''The Enigma'' is in agony over the death around the battlefield and leans on the mighty sphinx for support.
* DeathOfAChild: ''[[http://catholic-resources.org/Dore/Matt02c.jpg Massacre of the Innocents]]'' gratuitously depicts soldiers ripping babies from their mothers and skewering them with swords.
* DeathOfTheOldGods: ''The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism'' shows Zeus and the pagan gods falling into obscurity to be replaced by Jesus and His cross.
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* DramaticThunder: What are the odds that just as [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dor%C3%A9%27s_Bible_Illustrations#/media/File:005.Cain_Slays_Abel.jpg Cain slays Abel]], a lightning bolt would strike past? Pretty low, but nonetheless, Dore uses the bolt in the background to make God's disapproval visible.
* EnergyBeings: Several of Dore's works (like ''[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dor%C3%A9%27s_Bible_Illustrations#/media/File:002.The_Creation_of_Eve.jpg the Creation of Eve]]0 portray God as a body of light to demonstrate His incorporeality and transcendence.
* EnergyBeings: Several of Dore's works (like ''[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dor%C3%A9%27s_Bible_Illustrations#/media/File:002.The_Creation_of_Eve.jpg the Creation of Eve]]0 portray God as a body of light to demonstrate His incorporeality and transcendence.
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* FullFrontalNudity: Dore makes nearly all the souls in his illustrations of ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' fully nude. While most of them are too busy writhing against rocks and walls to show naughty bits, a few of the nude damned/penitents (like in [[http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery/0605avarice.jpg this one]]) have their gonads in view, even if not in incredible detail.
* GoThroughMe: The spotlight in Dore's ''[[http://catholic-resources.org/Dore/Matt02c.jpg Massacre of the Innocents]]'' is on a mother who is shielding her two infant children from three blood-thirsty soldiers by putting her body and her life between them. There's no mention of such a sacrifice in the Bible, but the depiction of motherly love only makes Herod's massacre all the more monstrous.
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: Christ leads an army of armed angels to overthrow the pagan pantheons in ''The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism''.
* TheGrimReaper: Dore only illustrates one of the Four Horseman: Death. Dore shows includes the scythe and the pale horse mentioned in [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]], but includes mysterious flowing robes, emaciated skin, and winged demons following him throughout the sky.
* GoThroughMe: The spotlight in Dore's ''[[http://catholic-resources.org/Dore/Matt02c.jpg Massacre of the Innocents]]'' is on a mother who is shielding her two infant children from three blood-thirsty soldiers by putting her body and her life between them. There's no mention of such a sacrifice in the Bible, but the depiction of motherly love only makes Herod's massacre all the more monstrous.
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: Christ leads an army of armed angels to overthrow the pagan pantheons in ''The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism''.
* TheGrimReaper: Dore only illustrates one of the Four Horseman: Death. Dore shows includes the scythe and the pale horse mentioned in [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]], but includes mysterious flowing robes, emaciated skin, and winged demons following him throughout the sky.
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* KrakenAndLeviathan: Dore took a brief metaphor about levaithans in [[Literature/BookOfIsaiah Isaiah 27]] and created an illustration of an angry GrandpaGod chasing a mile-long sea serpent into the depths of the sea at sword-point.
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* WarIsHell: In order to visualize the destructiveness of battle, ''The Enigma'' portrays a muted wasteland occupied by broken weapons, mutilated corpses, and an angel heartbroken by the war.
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->''"One of the most acclaimed and successful artists of the nineteenth century was also one of the inventors of comic books, and arguably the originator of much of the vocabulary of the graphic narrative. That was Gustave Doré."''
-->-- '''Doug Harvey''', "Sandow Birk's Fast-Food [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]"
-->-- '''Doug Harvey''', "Sandow Birk's Fast-Food [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]"
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He could drew pretty scary stuff. See here: [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre#mediaviewer/File:Poucet10.jpg]]
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He could drew pretty scary stuff. See here: [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre#mediaviewer/File:Poucet10.jpg]][[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Poucet10.jpg]] The image, for those who can't see it is the ogre from "Literature/HopOMyThumb" ready to slash the throats of his daughters, his eyes bulging out of his sockets like olives.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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** His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
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** His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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** His illustrated Bible appears anachronistically in ''{{Film/Amistad}}'', when its given to the captive Africans by some American Christians. This was in 1841, when Doré was only nine years old, long before he created it.
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Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney to Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
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Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 [[http://upload.1865[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney to Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Illustrated the Bible and Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' in which Dante visits Heaven, Hell and Purgatory and meets various biblical figures.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Usually worked in black-and-white.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Could drew pretty scary stuff. See here, [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre#mediaviewer/File:Poucet10.jpg]]
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'''Gustave Doré in popular culture'''
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the latter profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the latter last profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the latter profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Literature/GargantuaAndPantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the latter profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Literature/GargantuaAndPantagruel'', ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
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* {{Homage}}
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
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* SceneryPorn: His work is a marvel to look at. Not only the characters and imaginary beings, but even the backgrounds evoke a rich and believable atmosphere.
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* SceneryPorn: His work is a marvel to look at. Not only the characters and imaginary beings, but even the backgrounds evoke a rich and believable atmosphere.atmosphere.
'''Gustave Doré in popular culture'''
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
** "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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'''Gustave Doré in popular culture'''
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
** "Magick" (2004) by Music/JohnZorn has a drawing from Creator/GustaveDore on the cover.
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Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney tot Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
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Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney tot to Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
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'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the latter profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Literature/GargantuaAndPantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney tot Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
!! Doré's work provides examples of:
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Illustrated the Bible and Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' in which Dante visits Heaven, Hell and Purgatory and meets various biblical figures.
* BornInTheWrongCentury and TwoDecadesBehind: Doré didn't make much illustrations about his own time period, preferring to draw stories taking place in the romantic/mythological past.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Usually worked in black-and-white.
* FairyTales: Doré is mostly associated with his illustrations of fairy tales, even though he only did one of those.
* {{Fantasy}}: He drew fantastic elements such as angels, monsters, giants, talking animals, gods and other creatures in a realistic but believable style.
* {{Hell}}: Together with Creator/HieronymusBosch perhaps the best illustrator of Hell, in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
* {{Homage}}
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
* TheLostWoods: Doré was a master in drawing dark, mysterious woods, as seen in his illustrations of the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'' and ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Could drew pretty scary stuff. See here, [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre#mediaviewer/File:Poucet10.jpg]]
* RaysFromHeaven: A common trope in his art.
** [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creation_of_Light.png The biblical creation of light]], where the sun is revealed from behind the clouds for the first time, illuminating God's handiwork.
** Again from the Bible, [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_and_Eve_Driven_out_of_Eden.png the moment when Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden]], with sunbeams from behind a tree near the angel showing the beauty and righteousness from which Adam and Eve have fallen.
** [[http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/the-new-jerusalem.jpg The New Jerusalem]], where many rays through the high clouds pour glory on the city.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paradise_Lost_12.jpg Satan on his way down from Heaven]] in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', where his dark body contrasts with the stars and clouds and sunbeams of Heaven.
** [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pcnto12.jpg One of the illustrations]] he made for ''Purgatorio'', showing a figure highlighted by sunbeams from above walking amongst the tortured. The sunbeams are the main clue that the central figure is good.
* SceneryPorn: His work is a marvel to look at. Not only the characters and imaginary beings, but even the backgrounds evoke a rich and believable atmosphere.
'''Gustave Doré''' (1832-1883) was a French graphical artist, printmaker, sculptor and illustrator, though he is most famous for the latter profession. He used wood engraving to illustrate scenes from various iconic pieces of world literature, such as the poems of Creator/LordByron, ''Literature/GargantuaAndPantagruel'', ''Literature/TheBible'', ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'', ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'' and ''Literature/TheRaven''. Many of these drawings have become the ''definitive'' visualizations of this classic stories and are about as iconic as the tales themselves.
Doré also made drawings of realistic events, such as the fatal accident on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Matterhorn_disaster_Dore.jpg]] and realistic pictures of the poor neighborhoods of London in ''London: A Pilgrimage'', but he was at his best when he could illustrate {{Fantasy}} stories and let his imagination run wild. His work has influenced countless artists, from Creator/WaltDisney tot Creator/TerryGilliam. Many stories in a fairy tale setting take their inspiration from Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's fairy tales.
!! Doré's work provides examples of:
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Illustrated the Bible and Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' in which Dante visits Heaven, Hell and Purgatory and meets various biblical figures.
* BornInTheWrongCentury and TwoDecadesBehind: Doré didn't make much illustrations about his own time period, preferring to draw stories taking place in the romantic/mythological past.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Usually worked in black-and-white.
* FairyTales: Doré is mostly associated with his illustrations of fairy tales, even though he only did one of those.
* {{Fantasy}}: He drew fantastic elements such as angels, monsters, giants, talking animals, gods and other creatures in a realistic but believable style.
* {{Hell}}: Together with Creator/HieronymusBosch perhaps the best illustrator of Hell, in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
* {{Homage}}
** The influence of Doré on Creator/WaltDisney is very obvious, especially in his fairy tale adaptations.
** ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'' (1946) took much of its atmosphere from Doré's illustration work.
** The fairy tale forest in ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves'' was inspired by Doré's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.
** Creator/TerryGilliam admires Dorés work so much that he adapted many of the novels he illustrated to the big screen, with directly inspired imagery: ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the aborted project ''Man Of La Mancha'' (about ''Literature/DonQuixote'') and ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''.
** Creator/RobertCrumb is a fan of his work and used Doré's illustrations of the Bible as an inspiration for his own illustration of the ''Book Genesis''.
** WebComic/{{Academia}}: Pasha's DreamSequence is done in the style of Doré's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
* TheLostWoods: Doré was a master in drawing dark, mysterious woods, as seen in his illustrations of the fairy tales of Creator/CharlesPerrault, ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing'' and ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Could drew pretty scary stuff. See here, [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre#mediaviewer/File:Poucet10.jpg]]
* RaysFromHeaven: A common trope in his art.
** [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creation_of_Light.png The biblical creation of light]], where the sun is revealed from behind the clouds for the first time, illuminating God's handiwork.
** Again from the Bible, [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_and_Eve_Driven_out_of_Eden.png the moment when Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden]], with sunbeams from behind a tree near the angel showing the beauty and righteousness from which Adam and Eve have fallen.
** [[http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/the-new-jerusalem.jpg The New Jerusalem]], where many rays through the high clouds pour glory on the city.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paradise_Lost_12.jpg Satan on his way down from Heaven]] in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', where his dark body contrasts with the stars and clouds and sunbeams of Heaven.
** [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pcnto12.jpg One of the illustrations]] he made for ''Purgatorio'', showing a figure highlighted by sunbeams from above walking amongst the tortured. The sunbeams are the main clue that the central figure is good.
* SceneryPorn: His work is a marvel to look at. Not only the characters and imaginary beings, but even the backgrounds evoke a rich and believable atmosphere.
