![]() Therefore, although Blake fully acknowledged the authority of the Commedia’s inspiring vision, the imaginative re-formulation in pictorial terms of that same vision opens the way to an independent creative act capable of revisiting and amending Dante’s text. Unlike other illustrators, for William Blake the illustration of a literary work meant commenting on and interpreting it in the light of his own creative, visionary experience. ![]() The one hundred and two drawings and the seven engravings which William Blake dedicated to Dante’s Commedia, considered by some to be the English artist’s greatest masterpiece, sprang from a complex relationship. ![]() Blake & Dante: A Study of William Blake’s Illustrations of ‘The Divine Comedy’ including critical notes. ![]() (*This page is adapted from a full-length monograph: De Santis, Silvia. ![]()
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