Doré and the artisans in his studios produced over two hundreds of different woodcuts illustrating scenes from a wide variety of biblical stories from both the Old Testament (including the Apocrypha) and the New Testament.
His biblical illustrations were first published in 1865 in France and reprinted in the late 1860's in various German, English, and other editions. Doré's illustrations were extremely popular.
His artistic style greatly influenced some of the early biblical films, especially those of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille.
