The Apocalyptic Sublime

by Morton D. Paley

From 1775, when John Hamilton Mortimer exhibited his 'Death on a pale horse' to Lord Leighton's abortive project for a Revelation fresco inside the Dome of St. Paul's in the mid-1800s, apocalyptic subjects played an unusually prominent role in British art. This book is the first study of apocalyptic art of this era. The sublime in British art; Benjamin West; Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg; William Blake; J.M.W. Turner; John Martin; Samuel Colman and Francis Danby; 1. The apocalyptic grotesque. 2. Edward Francis Burney. 3. Versions of Belshazzar's Feast by John Martin.

Genres: Romanticism

197 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1986