Teacher Artemieva Marina Aleksandrovna Presentation by Lisa Konstantinova 10 v grade School 80 Teacher Artemieva Marina Aleksandrovna

Plan Introduction Home and family Inspiration Engraving Studying at the Royal Academy Wife Relief Etching Intaglio Engraving “Original Stories from Real Life” Dante’s “Divine Comedy” Death Recognition Resources

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His paintings and poetry have been characterized as part of the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. 

Home and family William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick St.) in Soho, London.

Inspiration Raphael (1483 – 1520) Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)

Inspiration Maarten van Heemskerck (1498 – 1574) Albrecht Durer (1475 – 1564)

Engraving On 4 August 1772, Blake was apprenticed to engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street. Blake’s experiences in Westminster Abbey helped form his artistic style and ideas.

Studying at the Royal Academy On 8 October 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House, near the Strand. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640)

Wife Catherine Boucher (1762 – 1831) Blake met Catherine Boucher in 1782. Blake married Catherine on 18 august 1782 in St. Mary's church, Battersea. Catherine Boucher (1762 – 1831)

Relief Etching Songs of Innocence and of Experience (c. 1789) The Book of Thel (c. 1789)

Relief Etching The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1792) Jerusalem (1804 – 1820)

Intaglio Engraving The Book of Job illustration

Original Stories from Real Life Blake is sometimes considered (along with Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband William Godwin) a forerunner of the 19th-century "free love" movement, a broad reform tradition starting in the 1820s. Original Stories from Real Life (1788; 1791) by Mary Wollstonecraft

Divine Comedy The commission for Dante's Divine Comedy came to Blake in 1826, with the aim of producing a series of engravings.

Divine Comedy Blake's death in 1827 cut short the enterprise, and only a handful of watercolours were completed, with only seven of the engravings arriving at proof form.

Death William Blake died on 12 August 1827 at the age of 69 in Soho, London, Great Britain. Blake was buried five days after his death – on the eve of his 45th wedding anniversary – at the Dissenter's burial ground in Bunhill Fields, where his parents were interred. 

Recognition A 1995 American Western film “Dead Man” directed by Jim Jarmusch is inspired by William Blake’s poetry.

Recognition The Blake Prize for Religious Art was established in his honor in Australia in 1949 as well as The Blake Poetry Prize in 2008.

Recognition In 1957 a memorial to Blake and his wife was erected in Westminster Abbey’s poets’ corner.

Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://www.blakeprize.com.au/ https://www.google.ru/ Books 