Tag: Blake

John Milton

(1608–1674) Works: • Areopagitica (English) • An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton (English) • L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas (English) • Le Paradis Perdu (French) • Milton’s Comus (English) • Minor Poems (English) •…

Geoffrey Chaucer

(c.1343–1400) Works: • Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (English) • Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s “De Consolatione Philosophiae” (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 1 (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 2 (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 3 (English) • Chaucer’s Works,…

The Death of the Wicked Man

Blake, William (1757-1827) The Death of the Wicked Man s.d. Watercolor, 20.2 × 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Third sheet in a series of nineteen, commissioned by the publisher Robert H. Cromek to illustrate the collection The Grave by the…

St. Matthew (1799)

Blake, William (1757-1827) St. Matthew 1799 Tempera on canvas, 38.5 x 26.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Like St. Matthew, William Blake reported having visions of angels throughout his life. The energy and awe with which the evangelist Saint Matthew…

The Holy Family (c.1805)

Blake, William (1757-1827) The Holy Family (also known as Christ in the Lap of Truth) c.1805 Pen, ink and brush, 37.9 x 32.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although he rejected institutionalized religion, Blake was intensely spiritual, and much of…

God Judging Adam (c.1795)

Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam c.1795 Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, 42.5 x 52.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own nakedness and…

Dante running from the Three Beasts (1824-1827)

Blake, William (1757-1827) Dante running from the Three Beasts 1824–1827 Pen, ink and watercolour over pencil and black chalk, 37.3 × 52.8 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne illustration for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Inferno I, 1-90) See also:…

Princeton University Art Museum

Founded: 1882 Address: Princeton, NJ 08544 Website: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: • Museums |…