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

2. 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

3. 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. 

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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)

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

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

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

12. Intaglio Engraving
The Book of Job illustration

13. 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

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

15. 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.

16. 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. 

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

18. 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.

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

20. Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://www.blakeprize.com.au/
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