![]() ![]() The Booth Family Center has a complete set of Dante's text and Dalí's printed illustrations for the Divine Comedy. As the inks build up on the paper, the image emerges and clarifies into a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy, illustrated by Salvador Dalí.ĭalí made 100 watercolor illustrations for the Divine Comedy from 1951 – 1960 after that, two master wood engravers took another five years to create the 3,500 wood blocks necessary to reproduce the watercolors as prints. This animation is 37 seconds long, but in real life it takes a lot of time to make one full-color print.Įach single sheet of paper is run through the press once for every color of ink used-in this case, thirty-three colors. Wood block engraving and printing by Raymond Jacquet and Jean Taricco ![]() Booth Family Center for Special Collections. ![]() Rare Books, Manuscripts, Art & Archives. ![]()
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