Etched in My Mind...

Watching the special of the 7 Deadly Sins brings me to an artist who has always captured my eye, Gustave Doré. His engravings I was first introduced to in the book Inferno back in the 8th grade. Even in the Age of Short Attention spans, (blamed mostly on Atari), I found his work to be breath taking. Still in my mind is the fact that his work is primarily engravings, and although such elicited only minor oohs and ahhs from my classmates, I was totally wow'd by that. The fact that everything presented had to be carved as a mirror image (not quite backwards, but you may get the point), was astounding to me. Aside from all that, to gaze with unabated awe at the beauty of his engravings was/is something I can continue to do.