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Gustave Dore and L'Annee Terrible et La Semaine Sanglante Lisa Small
Category: Art History Published: March 2007
The Franco-Prussian War--a significant chapter in the personal and professional life of artist Paul Gustave Dore--produces a tragic terrible year (and one horribly blood week) in France's history, as Napoleon's troops are crushed by Bismarck's forces. . .
 
Lincoln Remains as Statuesque as Ever Allen C. Guelzo
Category: Art & History Published: July 2011
Behold how a man may be exalted to a dignity and glory almost divine--and give freedom to a race. Surely art should unite with eloquence and poetry to celebrate such a theme.
 
Resurrecting Gustave Dore Robert Rosenblum
Category: Art History Published: May 2007
His ambitions & achievements in terms of illustrating a staggeringly vast encyclopedia of world literature far exceeded anything dreamed of by the young Romantics. Yet, like them, he continued to plunge us into fantastic extremes that only can be fully…