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The illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by Gustave Doré were highly popular and are still considered some of the best ever produced. Doré was a French artist who was born in 1832 and died in 1883. He was a prolific artist who produced over 3,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, lithographs, and sculptures. His illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy were published in 1861 and were an immediate success.