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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
William Blake (ur. 28 listopada 1757 w Londynie, zm. 12 sierpnia 1827 tamże) – angielski artysta: poeta, pisarz, rytownik, malarz, drukarz i mistyk, prekursor romantyzmu. Przez współczesnych nazywany często Mad Blake (szalony Blake), zaliczany czasem do grona poetów wyklętych w literaturze angielskiej.
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
The Great Red Dragon paintings are a series of watercolour paintings by the English poet and painter William Blake, created between 1805 and 1810. [1] It was during this period that Blake was commissioned to create over one hundred paintings intended to illustrate books of the Bible.
25 paź 2024 · William Blake was an English engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, author of exquisite lyrics in Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and profound and difficult “prophecies,” such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The First Book of Urizen (1794), Milton.
The Ghost of a Flea is a miniature painting by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake, held in the Tate Gallery, London. Measuring only 8.42 by 6.3 inches (21.4 by 16.0 centimetres), it is executed in a tempera mixture with gold, on a mahogany -type tropical hardwood panel. [ 1 ]
In 1799 Blake was commissioned by Thomas Butts, a minor civil servant, to paint fifty small Biblical subjects, which he executed in tempera. Butts, his single most important patron, seems to have bought the bulk of his output until at least 1810.
