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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques", 1855 edition.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Illustrated by Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Illustrated by Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
Greek Mythology Characters drawn by Gustave Doré
Note: Most of these are illustrations from the Divine Comedy.
1. Charon
2. Cerberus
3. Minos
4. Asterion/The Minotaur
5. The Erinyes/Furies
6. Centaurs
7. Harpies
8. Plutus
9. The Oceanids
10. Andromeda
The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism by Gustave Dore
I know that this painting is supposed to represent how Christianity became a worldwide religion and started to replace the polytheistic ones, yet I cannot help but think of a tournament between different religious figures. It would be an interesting idea.
*Realizing that this is partly the plot of Record of Ragnarok, and they made most of them dirty*
The Inferno - Canto XXVIII (Detail), 1885. Gustave Dore’s Illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Dante's Inferno - art by Gustave Doré (1861)