Art, Symbol & Imagination
The celestial white rose
Two small figures stand below immense concentric ranks of winged beings surrounding a radiant centre. Clouds form a base beneath the circular assembly. The printed caption identifies the saintly multitude arranged as a snow-white rose. This Paradise plate is bound among the Purgatory leaves in this edition; its subject follows the caption, not that physical position. The contrast between the observers and the vast rings gives the heavenly community the scale of an entire architecture.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The celestial white rose" [editorial title]. In Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante, Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary; illustrated by Gustave Doré. New edition, 1901, 1901, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 148. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-147
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Source plate inspected individually; printed canto and lines checked independently of binding position. Editorial title; original scan tone retained.
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Gustave Doré (design). The celestial white rose. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 148. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-147