{"product_id":"a-year-through-the-otherworld-2027-dore-wall-calendar","title":"A Year Through the Otherworld — 2027 Doré Wall Calendar","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man stands among the trees. He has lost the road, and the year has only just begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Heaven’s 2027 calendar follows twelve of Gustave Doré’s wood engravings through Dante’s Divine Comedy: the dark wood, the ferryman, the wind that never rests, the mountain, and the great white rose of Paradise. Each month carries lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation, with a note on the scene and an Old Heaven reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence is our own. July bends beneath a stone; August steps back into the morning air. By December, the solitary figure of January has reached a heaven crowded with light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoré gives these places their scale. A cliff occupies most of the world. Two travellers make their way beneath it. Even Paradise is large enough to make a person hesitate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHang it somewhere ordinary. There are appointments to keep beneath all those angels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInspired by\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the poem’s own reckoning, it is Holy Week of the year 1300 when Dante Alighieri finds himself lost in a dark wood. What follows is a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and out among the stars of Paradise, first with the Roman poet Virgil as his guide, then with Beatrice, and at the last with Saint Bernard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1860s the French artist Gustave Doré drew that journey, and master engravers cut his designs into wood. Eleven of these twelve plates are reproduced from scans of a Berlin edition of 1870–71 held by the National Library of Poland. April’s Charon comes from a nineteenth-century Cassell edition of Henry Francis Cary’s English translation. We have not redrawn them. Apart from one scanning mark removed from April’s plate, each is reproduced as printed, cropped to its printed border with an even margin of its own paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach month pairs one plate with lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation and a short note on the scene. The order is ours, not Dante’s: it begins in the wood in January and ends among the stars in December.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDante began by admitting he was lost. A year can begin the same way. Hang it where you will see it every morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 14 × 11.5 in wall calendar that opens to 14 × 23 in when hung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve Gustave Doré plates for Dante’s \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e, one for each month, January–December 2027\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy art pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte, writable grid pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUS federal holidays, plus two Dante dates: Dantedì (March 25) and the anniversary of Dante’s death (September 14, 1321)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral bound, with a hanging hole\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted in the USA by our print partner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade to order: each calendar is printed after you order it, then ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© 2026 Shawn Neville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade with AI assistance, following human aesthetic, mythic and historical direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Old Heaven","offers":[{"title":"14\" x 11.5\" \/ Glossy","offer_id":67757642612824,"sku":"12287582328787561634","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0859\/5698\/4920\/files\/dore-calendar-2027-01-front-cover.png?v=1792314998","url":"https:\/\/oldheavenapparel.com\/products\/a-year-through-the-otherworld-2027-dore-wall-calendar","provider":"Old Heaven Apparel ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}