<h1 id="gustave-dore-dante's-divine-comedy-or-inferno-purgatorio-paradiso-or-engravings-lora-(krea2-turbo)">Gustave Doré — Dante's Divine Comedy | Inferno · Purgatorio · Paradiso | Engravings LoRA (Krea2 Turbo)</h1>LoRA trained on Gustave Doré's monumental illustration cycle for Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (1861–1868): 136 full-page plates — 75 for Inferno, 42 for Purgatorio, 19 for Paradiso — the single most influential visual interpretation of Dante ever created. The model captures Doré's sublime scale, vertiginous perspectives, tenebrist chiaroscuro, and the dense engraved line-work that made these plates the definitive image of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven for 160 years.Trained and tested on Krea2 Turbo.<hr /><h2 id="about-the-artist-and-the-project">About the Artist &amp; the Project</h2>Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor, born in Strasbourg. A child prodigy who was publishing lithographs at fifteen, he became the most celebrated book illustrator of the 19th century.<ul><li>1861 — published the Inferno volume with 75 engravings, financed at his own expense; an instant triumph across Europe</li><li>1868 — completed the cycle with Purgatorio and Paradiso plates</li><li>Other monumental projects: the Bible (1866), Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, Rabelais, Perrault's Fairy Tales, London: A Pilgrimage, Crusades, Idylls of the King</li><li>Died in Paris in 1883, at the height of his fame</li></ul>The Divine Comedy plates defined the popular imagination of Dante forever: the gate of Hell, Charon, Paolo and Francesca, the frozen lake of Cocytus, the three-faced Lucifer, the celestial rose — all seen through Doré's eyes.<hr /><h2 id="the-manner">The Manner</h2><ul><li>Sublime scale: tiny human figures dwarfed by cosmic architecture — infinite circles, bottomless chasms, the mountain of Purgatory, the spheres of Heaven; the vertigo of the infinite in both directions</li><li>Tenebrist chiaroscuro: vast fields of darkness pierced by hellfire, divine radiance, or a single shaft of light; light always carries theological meaning</li><li>Vertiginous perspective: looking straight down into abysses or straight up into heavens; diagonals of descent and ascent structure every plate</li><li>Dense crowds: hundreds of souls, demons, angels rendered as rhythmic masses — Doré's crowds are oceans of bodies</li><li>Engraved line-work: fine parallel hatching and cross-hatching building tone from pure black to luminous white; the texture of 19th-century wood engraving (bois gravé)</li><li>Gothic-Romantic atmosphere: medieval architecture, ruined towers, the city of Dis, frozen lakes, burning sands — the Romantic sublime applied to theology</li><li>Monochrome palette: black ink on cream/ivory paper; occasional sepia or warm plate tone</li><li>Narrative precision: each plate illustrates a specific canto with legible iconography — Dante with laurel wreath, Virgil as robed guide, Charon's oar, Beatrice's veil</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="tested-generation-settings">Tested Generation Settings</h2>ParameterValueBase modelKrea2 TurboVAE<code>qwen_image_vae</code>Text encoder<code>qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled</code>Steps8SamplerEuler aSchedule typeBong TangentCFG scale1Resolution1536×2048 (vertical — the native plate format)LoRA weight0.85–1.0Negative prompt not required at CFG 1.<h2 id="versions">Versions</h2><ul><li>Epoch 18 (current) — captures both the Inferno tenebrism and the Paradiso radiance; stable on Krea2 Turbo at 8 steps.</li></ul><hr /><h2 id="rights-and-ethics">Rights &amp; Ethics</h2>Gustave Doré died in 1883. All plates are fully in the public domain worldwide. This LoRA is an educational and creative tool.

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