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Author Finley, Gerald E., author.

Title Angel in the sun : Turner's vision of history / Gerald Finley
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998

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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 PicturesEPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: Daniel Wilson and Regulus -- NOTES -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered himself particularly a painter of historical landscapes. His distinctive landscapes were often enriched with symbolism and allegory that set them apart from those of his artist contemporaries and mystified his audiences. Angel in the Sun is an unconventional study of the richness and complexity of Turner's vision of history as revealed through his drawings and paintings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 fast
Subject History in art.
histories (visual works)
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Landscapes & Seascapes.
History in art
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773567313
0773567313
1282855174
9781282855175