Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History 9780773567313
J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered hi
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
FIGURES
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
COLOUR PLATES
1 Turner and History: A Brief Introduction
2 The Louvre and the Royal Academy Lectures
3 Greece and Italy
4 The Dynamics of Myth and Legend
5 Rural Retreats
6 "In memory's mystic band": Commemorating the Past and Present
7 "Let my words / Out live the maker"
8 Steam Triumphant: Bane or Benefit?
9 "The Terrible Muses": Astronomy and Geology
10 Biblical History: Fall to Apocalypse
11 Light and Colour: Theory and Practice
12 "The dark'ning Deluge": Shade and Darkness and Light and Colour, the Late Deluge Pictures
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX: Daniel Wilson and Regulus
NOTES
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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