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William Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.
William Blake: Visionary Through Jan. 14, 2024, at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles; 310-440-7300; getty.edu. A correction was made on Dec. 30, 2023 ...
A major exhibition on William Blake's work, titled "William Blake: Visionary," is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 14, 2024.
You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (f… ...
William Blake, The Lovers’ Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, between 1824 and 1827, pen, ink and watercolor, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery William Blake died on August 12, 1827.
Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is no conventional study.
Copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience sells for at auction for a stunning £3.4million. By TASH MOSHEIM. Published: 06:54 EDT, 28 June 2024 | Updated: 11:03 EDT, 28 June 2024 .
Left: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Infant Joy (ca, 1825). Photo: Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images. Right: Thomas Phillips, Portrait of William Blake (1807).
Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was an effort to recognize and spread the truth, though its hand-printed form prevented it from reaching many readers. In this deluxe, 27-page book of ...
OXFORD, England, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A series of boyhood doodles engraved on copper plates by English poet and painter William Blake around 250 years ago have been discovered by researchers using ...
Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But a new look at the story suggests an alternative possibility ...
William Blake’s Cottage Will Be Saved—and Transformed Into a New Museum The 18th-century poet wrote some of his most renowned works in the house in southern England, which has since fallen ...