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Image | 1946NewYork-01-010 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Salvador Dalí |
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Lithographer | |
Title Caption | |
Title Supplied | Don Quixote and the windmills |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 8 |
Subject |
8.2 Adventure of the windmills (giants) |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Offset |
Color | In color |
Volume | I |
Page Number | between 78 and 79 |
Image Dimension | 170 x 210 |
Page Dimension | 182 x 236 |
Commentary | The well-known adventure of the windmill now under Dali´s original surrealistic vision.
In the foreground, a figure of don Quixote whose hollow head includes his own figure before a (kind of) windmill with bones as sails. Above, an errant knight on horseback attacking an oniric figure (don Quixote imagined by himself attacking the giant; notice the arms/bones/sails like the ones of the windmills underneath). In the background, don Quixote and Rocinante hit by the windmill sail while Sancho gesticulates. Notice the details in don Quixote's neck: hybrid figures, monsters... Highly suggestive illustration. |
Notes | 1 - The illustration is placed in chapter 10:1. |