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 Ancient of Days by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun 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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.jpg "The Ghost of a Flea 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 "Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees")
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.jpg "The River of Life by William Blake")
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.jpg "Dante Running from the Three Beasts by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Calling up his Legions by William Blake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-58294).jpg "Book of Urizen; Blake")
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.jpg "Infant Joy, from Songs of Innocence by William Blake")
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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 "The Circle of the Thieves: Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent, Illustration to the")
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.jpg "Tornado-Zeus Battling Typhon Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden by William Blake")
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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 "Us with all the fury of a spiritual existence..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 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 "Death")
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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 "The Angel Michael Binding Satan (")
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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 "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 "Number of monkeys, baboons.., illustration and text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "Adam and Eve Sleeping by William Blake")
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.jpg "Newton by William Blake")
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.jpg "Illustration 2 to Milton")
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.jpg "The circle of the lustful or The lovers")
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.jpg "Europe a Prophecy by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-314413).jpg "Nebuchadnezzar, 1795 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Job")
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.jpg "The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death, illustration from")
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.jpg "Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 1793 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels by William Blake")
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.jpg "Penseroso and L")
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.jpg "Satan Smiting Job with Boils by William Blake")
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.jpg "God Judging Adam 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 "The Wandering Moon by William Blake")
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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 "Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 6, \"And none but Bromian . . . . \" by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1443295).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 16, \"The Little Boy Lost\" (Bentley 13) 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1437094).jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 6, \"In living creations appear")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1441974).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 24, \"The Divine Image\" (Bentley 18) by William Blake")
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.jpg "View of St. Edmund")
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.jpg "Illustration 7 to Milton")
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.jpg "Joseph")
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.jpg "Illustration 9 to Milton")
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.jpg "Illustration 10 to Milton")
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.jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 13, \"Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided . . . \" (Bentley 15) by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1441389).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 34, \"Introduction\" (Bentley 30) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Illustration 12 to Milton")
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.jpg "The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Tormenting Ciampolo by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Baffled Devils Fighting (Illustration from")
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.jpg "The Circle of the Traitors, Dante")
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.jpg "The First Book of Urizen, Plate 15, \"8. The globe of life blood trembled . . . .\" (Bentley 18) by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Book of Job: Pl. 21, So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning by William Blake")
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.jpg "Canto III, Verse 201 by William Blake")
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.jpg "For Children. The Gates of Paradise, Plate 5, \"Earth\" by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1442474).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 26, \"A Cradle Song\" (Bentley 16) by William Blake")
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.jpg "A Little Girl Lost: plate 51 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (copy AA) by William Blake")
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.jpg "Jerusalem, Plate 31, His western heaven by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Circle of the Lustful; Paolo and Francesca by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Circle of the Traitors; Dante")
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.jpg "The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Mauling Each Other (Inferno, Canto XXII) by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1443247).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 45, \"The Chimney Sweeper\" (Bentley 37) by William Blake")
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 c1815-26 (etching ink and wc) - (MeisterDrucke-200446).jpg "The Voice of the Ancient Bard: plate 54 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (copy AA) c.1815-26 by William Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1437224).jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 40, \"The Angel\" (Bentley 41) by William Blake")
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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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 - (MeisterDrucke-581915).jpg "A Woody Landscape, c.1801 by William Blake")
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