Faust with illustrations of Eugene Delacrois

Faust is a literary masterpiece that does not need to be presented, the crown of the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he worked over throughout his life. Amazing in depths, multi -planed and breadth of philosophical issues, the tragedy for more than two centuries has remained unchanging the peak of German poetry, and Faust himself is the greatest intellectual and humanist, the personification of the ideals of the Enlightenment of Enlightenment. Having passed through many publications, interpretations and theatrical productions, the legend of Dr. Faust inspired a huge number of cultural figures throughout Europe. Among them are talented artists and illustrators. On the pages of this book you will find the rare engravings of Eugene Delacroix (1828), which adorned the first translation of Faust into French, the work of artists Franz Xavier (1899) and Franz Stassen (1902), as well as the famous etching of Rembrandt (1652), which is, which Goethe himself placed on the cover of one of the publications of his tragedy in Germany.