Gustave Dore
Gustave Doré carved eternity into wood and paper. Born in Strasbourg in 1832, he began as a prodigy with steel-etched humor, then turned his hand toward terror, grace, and revelation. He illustrated the Bible, Dante, Cervantes, Milton, Poe—turning their words into cathedrals of shadow. His engravings dragged the sacred through storms of light, cut divinity into matter, and filled the abyss with texture. Every line vibrated with moral fever: angels burning like suns, sinners twisting in chiaroscuro, clouds bruised by apocalypse.