William Blake

A major figure of the Romantic Movement the British artist <strong>William Blake</strong>17571827 was at once a painter designer engraver and poet. Inspired byB... » 

A major figure of the Romantic Movement the British artist William Blake17571827 was at once a painter designer engraver and poet. Inspired byBiblical and prophetical themes Proverbs of Hell The Everlasting Gospel andThe Gates of Paradise the artist played with the diversity of his media inorder to better externalise the demons that haunted him as well as to plungethe viewer or reader into a profound melancholy. In this monograph OsbertBurdett sheds light on the art and life of this extraordinary artist giftedwith unequalled imagination and originality. «