The Foundations of Western Literature

Greek and Roman Myths in Art
Homer  "Odyssey"  illustrations by John Flaxman
EXPLORATION (in Russian): Homer  "Iliad "and "Odyssey"
Apuleius "The Golden Asse" illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, Martin Van Maele
Longus "Daphnis and Chloe" illustrations by Marc Chagall

BIBLE  (Old Testament and New Testament)
The Bible illustrations by Julius von Carolsfeld, Gustave Dore, William Blake
David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land"
 

Classical Literature

Ovid "Metamorphoses", "The Art of Love" ill. by F. Chauveau, Le Mire, S. Dali
 

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

"Arturian Legend"  (Pre-Raphaelite's and Beardsley's Vision)
Dante "The Divine Comedy" (Illustrations by G. Dore, W. Blake, S. Dali)
Dante (Illustrations by Botticelli)
Boccaccio "The Decameron" (Illustrations by Salvador Dali)
Ariosto "Orlando Fuioso" (Illustrations by G. Dore)
Rabelais "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (Illustrations by Gustave Dore)
W. Shakespeare "Hamlet" (illustration from Eugene Delacroix)
Netherlandish Proverbs (by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)

The 17-18th century


EXPLORATIONS (in Russian): Josif Brodsky   "Elegy to John Donne"
John Milton "Paradise Lost" (Illustrations by G. Dore, J. Martin, H.Fuseli)
Cervantes "Don Quixote" (Illustrations by G. Dore)
 

THE 18-19th CENTURY

Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations for  Moxon's Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King" (illustrations by G. Dore)
John Tenniel Ill. from  Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Oscar Wilde "Salome" (Illustrations by Beardsley)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" (Ill. by Eugene Delacroix and Harry Clarke)
Edgar Allain Poe (illustrations by Gustave Dore and Harry Clarke)
EXPLORATIONS (in Russian): Aleksandr Pushkin "Yevgeny Onegin"
 

THE 20th CENTURY

Alexandr Blok "Dvenadtzat" llustrations  by Yuri Annenkov

EXPLORATION (in Russian): THE SECRETS OF THE CRAFT
Osip Mandelshtam - Marina Tsvetaeva - Anna Achmatova - Joseph Brodsky