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|  | "The Saintly Throng in the Form of a Rose" by Doré
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Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "The Saintly Throng in the Form of a Rose" by Gustave Doré, featured in Issue #7.
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| | Re: "The Saintly Throng in the Form of a Rose" by
« Reply #1 on Aug 2, 2008, 8:19am » | |
It's hard to beat Dore. He has a picture similar to this, too, depicting a thick crowd of angels in the form of a cross.
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« Reply #2 on Aug 7, 2008, 1:00am » | |
i'm pretty sure he's the most represented here of our dead master artists. it boggles the mind to think of the painstaking work to engrave these things in wood or steel—for printing purposes, they'd have to carve out a negative image. i saw a tv show about engravers who design the plates for printing currency and stuff. very intricate, one-strike-you're-out kind of work. i suppose the doré illustrations weren't matters of national security, but the same kind of extreme artistry goes into both.
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