Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Ascension
A luminous standing figure rises above a group of robed followers gathered on a hillside. Several viewers lift their arms while others kneel beneath the broad open sky. The caption identifies the Ascension. Doré separates the elevated body from the human company through light and vertical distance, leaving the observers' gestures to connect the two levels. The scene is remarkably spacious compared with his crowded battle and court plates. Its power comes from the contrast between a figure departing upward and those who must remain upon the ground to witness that departure.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Ascension" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 385. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-384
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Ascension. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 385. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-384