I thought you might enjoy these. The color painting (1841) is John Martin's depiction of Pandemonium, the capital of hell. The black and white images are a few of Gustave Dore's famous engravings of Paradise Lost (1866). He illustrated the entire epic, but these are some images from Book I (except for the image of Satan being cast out of heaven; that comes later, but it's one of my favorites, so I included it anyway). Sorry for the screwy layout. Blogger drives me nuts sometimes. If you click on them, you can see them a bit larger, in more detail.
I love the colored painting. It's exactly what I pictured while I was reading the story.
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