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Laissez moi mourir - Dark Sanctuary
William Blake was a poet, illustrator, engraver, draughtsman, writer and painter whose efforts, due to their idiosyncratic and unorthodox nature, were largely unappreciated in his own lifetime. The knowledge Blake gained from working as an engraver enabled him to produce his own work in which he surrounded one of his poems with his own hand-coloured illustration. A powerful imagination is evident in every aspect of Blake's work. Among his most important works are the Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825), and the hundred or so watercolours to Dante's Divine Comedy...A deeply mystical man, Blake claimed he had visionary experiences that prompted him to invent his own belief system in which the creator of the universe, whom he renamed Urizen, wrought vengeance on mankind through Jesus, renamed Orc. His social and political conscience railed against the prevailing academic painting of the eighteenth century. He saw it as representing all that he came to despise about the rational, materialistic age in which he found himself.

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  • Amo Dark Sanctuary!

  • Anch'io Milady, infatti li ho messi anche in altri miei video! :-)

  • Muy buen trabajo, Alcyna.

    Ya está en el blog.

    Gracias!

  • Muchas gracias querida, muy bueno el blog!

  • He whose face gives no light shall never become a star. W. Blake - Thanks!!

  • Who did this? What is the music. Very powerful. Ends too abruptly.

  • Yes, very powerful. I have added the information, and music is of the Dark Sanctuary group

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  • Blake's art is the antidote to a world devoid of imagination.

  • Amazing painter - Thanks.

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  • I like the dystopian visions of Blake, and try something similar with the animal farm effort on my site!

  • what are you looking for?

  • I love William Blake.. thank your for sharing this video... very dramatic music... blessings to you... :)

  • came from aliens

    

  • Hi, I'm a french "Blake Lover" I lists all that he is currently on Blake to give the information on my site:

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  • VERY HIGH PRFORMANCE!!!!

  • Rosetta West - Morning Star.  Obscure Mystics Unite!

  • When you die you get walked slowly back through your life, its harderer that way, then you see your conception, imagine what that means now a days. fuck fuck fuck,

  • So true blake the imagination is putird, as every, self serving man, will tell you.

  • I remember reading Blake's wikipedia article earlier today. It astounds me how much we have in common.

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