Gustave Dore Illustration: Empyrean

This astonishing engraving is from Doré’s magnificent illustrated version of Dante’s  Paradiso, Canto 31. It’s very hard to create a decent image of this online because there’s so much detail in the engraving. The main version I have is a large format publication by Omega Press, good because it’s large, bad because it’s on wood-free paper so the ink has …