Notorious among his contemporaries as an eccentric nutcase, the genius of William Blake, born in London in 1757, was only recognized and honored after his death. Already haunted by visions of angels, demons and ghosts in his childhood, mysticism served the trained engraver throughout his life as inspiration for his artistic and poetic career. After quarrelling with the President of the Royal Academy of Arts, he founded a printing house and published his works himself, together with his wife Catherine, by inventing a special printing technique, relief etching. Typical for Blake was the novel combination of image and writing.
Also because of the visualization of his visions in his works, which were so different from contemporary art, Blake was regarded by his fellow men as a crazy, yet unusually happy person who stood up for equality of the sexes, races and classes. These views, which were dangerous in the politics of the time, were particularly influenced by a liberal interpretation of the Bible, unlike the Church, and the ideas and ideals of the French Revolution, and were far ahead of their time. In his paintings Blake often used religious motifs, such as the Fall of Man in Satan Exulting over Eve and The Temptation and Fall of Eve.
William Blake died in 1827 largely unnoticed and penniless, but is today considered an important artist whose works still influence pop culture.
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.jpg "The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Ancient of Days by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Number of the Beast is 666 by William Blake")
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_c1803-05_(b_-_(MeisterDrucke-636435).jpg "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Rev. 12: 1-4), c.1803-05 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Behemoth and Leviathan by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake")
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.jpg "Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees")
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.jpg "The River of Life by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Calling up his Legions by William Blake")
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.jpg "Dante Running from the Three Beasts by William Blake")
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.jpg "Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "The circle of the lustful or The lovers")
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.jpg "A naked man with a long white beard is seated on the ground with his knees up and his eyes closed, plate 12 from The First Book of Urizen by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Angel Michael Binding Satan (")
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.jpg "Illustration 2 to Milton")
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.jpg "God Judging Adam by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun by William Blake")
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.jpg "Europe a Prophecy by William Blake")
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.jpg "Death")
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.jpg "To reconcile them seeks to destroy existence..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Smiting Job with Boils by William Blake")
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.jpg "Penseroso and L")
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.jpg "Adam and Eve Sleeping by William Blake")
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.jpg "Tornado-Zeus Battling Typhon Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden by William Blake")
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.jpg "Infant Joy, from Songs of Innocence by William Blake")
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.jpg "Job")
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.jpg "Us with all the fury of a spiritual existence..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-314413).jpg "Nebuchadnezzar, 1795 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Number of monkeys, baboons.., illustration and text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Circle of the Thieves: Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent, Illustration to the")
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.jpg "The Wandering Moon by William Blake")
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.jpg "Illustrations to Dante")
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.jpg "Satan Exulting over Eve by William Blake")
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.jpg "I am Young and ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid by William Blake")
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.jpg "Newton by William Blake")
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.jpg "Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 1793 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Root of an oak, he was suspended in a fungus..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "Illustration 1 to Milton")
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.jpg "Illustration 7 to Milton")
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.jpg "Job Rebuked by His Friends by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Minotaur, illustration to the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1824-27 by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Vision of Christ by William Blake")
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.jpg "Jerusalem, Plate 73 by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1435503).jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 3, \"Chap: 1 . . . .\" (Bentley 3) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 11 by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Mission of Virgil, Illustration from Canto 2 of")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-2127).jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 19, They Called Her Pity and Fled.... (Bentley 19) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Illustration 4 to Milton")
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.jpg "And Elohim Created Adam by William Blake")
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.jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 9, \"Chap: IV | 1 Ages on ages roll")
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.jpg "Cain Fleeing from the Wrath of God by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Ancient of Days - Urizen measuring the material world (Illustration of the frontispiece of the book")
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.jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 11, Two Nostrils Bent Down to the Deep (Bentley 13) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees")
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.jpg "Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Resurrection: The Angels rolling away the Stone from the Sepulchre by William Blake")
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.jpg "Nebuchadnezzar by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 113, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1441719).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 30, \"Night\" (Bentley 20) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Jerusalem, Plate 29, Then the Divine Vision by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Ancient of Days, 1793 by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 93 by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1442302).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 42, \"The Tyger\" (Bentley 42) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Addressing his Potentates, Illustration from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1436903).jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 17, \"They call")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1446396).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 3, \"Introduction\" (Bentley 4) by William Blake")
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.jpg "A Private Marine of Col. Fourgeoud")
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.jpg "Dante and Virgil gazing into the Ditch of Flatterers, illustration to the")
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.jpg "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; As a new heaven is begun, c.1790 by William Blake")
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