William Blake

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1757–1827

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Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

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St. Matthew — The living window: art moves here the way it moves in your living room.

works in the Momentable archive: 176works in the Momentable archive
museums hold them: 2museums hold them
life: 1757–1827life
movement: Romanticismmovement

The work

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St. Matthew

William Blake · The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Last Supper

William Blake · National Gallery of Art

Job and His Daughters

William Blake · National Gallery of Art

The Circle of the Thieves; Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent

William Blake · National Gallery of Art

Who William Blake was

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

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