{"id":992,"date":"2009-03-28T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2009-03-28T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:33:34","slug":"don-quixote-illustration-by-gustave-dore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/28\/don-quixote-illustration-by-gustave-dore\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Quixote Illustration by Gustave Dor\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gustave_dore_don_quixote_001.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gustave-dore-don-quixote-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 245px; height: 309px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gustave-dore-don-quixote-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s an illustration from Miguel de Cervantes&#8217; novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Quixote\">Don Quixote<\/a>.<\/em> It was done by Gustave Dor\u00e9. It shows Don Quixote reading a book of chivalry in his library.\u00a0 I love the way Dor\u00e9 shows all the madness of Quixote&#8217;s imagination surrounding him in his chair as if his imagination and the book were coming to life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a reminder that the sanest guy in the entire novel is really the Don himself&#8230; even though he does go off tilting at windmills as if they were giant monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=1c39ea4b-081f-87c9-ae51-3e79b4b33635\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an illustration from Miguel de Cervantes&#8217; novel, Don Quixote. It was done by Gustave Dor\u00e9. It shows Don Quixote reading a book of chivalry in his library.\u00a0 I love the way Dor\u00e9 shows all the madness of Quixote&#8217;s imagination surrounding him in his chair as if his imagination and the book were coming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,78],"tags":[2491,2492],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-literature","tag-illustration","tag-novels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}