Self Portrait
William Blake
(November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827)
William Blake (November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is now considered seminal in the history of both poetry and the visual arts.
Blake's prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the (English) language". His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".
Although he only once travelled any further than a day's walk outside London over the course of his life, his creative vision engendered a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced 'imagination' as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself". (From wikipedia)
Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels, 1808
Satan, Sin, and Death- Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun
Nebuchadnezzar 1795
Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell (Illustration to Dante's Inferno)
Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion- plate 76 Albion before Christ crucified on the Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil, 1804-20
Isaac Newton 1795
Illustrations of the Book of Job- Job's Evil Dreams, showing Job's God, who has become Satan with cloven hoof and entwined by a serpent 1825
Hecate Or The Three Fates 1795
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun 1805-1810
Good and Evil Angels Struggling for the Possession of a Child, c.1793-94
God Judging Adam