Based on Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, these unique works tell us more about Blake’s beliefs than his other paintings.
Blake
A brief tour through some of Blake’s personal mythology, as depicted in his paintings. With explanations.
Decoding one of Blake’s paintings enables its reading: an obscure author of devotional texts takes us on a tour of different variants of God.
A selection of paintings showing Blake’s strength in design beyond normal artistic composition – a very modern feature.
This extraordinary series of watercolours to illustrate the apocalyptic visions in the Book of Revelation is among Blake’s most brilliant.
The ‘divine whirlwind’ seems distinctive of Blake. This traces its origin, and his development of this visionary image.
This completes the 18 oil paintings. The series continues with another 16 charcoal drawings.
The visual tradition of a stairway to heaven appears quite recent. I propose that Blake was its originator.
Job being smitten by boils, a Count left to starve to death, the ghost of a flea, and one of Blake’s most complex and enigmatic paintings: true genius.
A famous British Admiral, a former Prime Minister, Chaucer and his Canterbury pilgrims, and the last bard alive – all subjects for these remarkable paintings.
The Eclectic Light Company 