#romantic painting
The Beauty of the End
John Martin (1789-1854), English painter and engraver.
This romantic artist will be particularly inspired by the apocalyptic evocations of the Bible, which he will sublimate by representing the gigantism of fury of the elements.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order : The Great Day of His Wrath, circa 1851 ; The Pandemonium, circa 1841 ; Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still, circa 1840 ; The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, 1852 ; Manfred and the Alpine Witch, 1837 ; The Bard, circa 1817 ; The Last Judgement, 1853 ; Macbeth, 1820 ; The restored version of The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, circa 1821 ; and finally, The Seventh Plague, 1823)
Oil paintings by the romantic Belgian painter Jules Victor Génisson (1805-1860).
(In order, Interior of the Cathedral of Amiens, 1842; Interior of St. Savior’s Cathedral in Bruges, 1848; Interior of the St James’ Church in Antwerp, 1857; Interior of Westminster Abbey, 1951)