Paintings by J. M. W. Turner

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• Apollo and Python. Plate -- Discussion
• The Golden Bough Plate
• The Angel Standing in the Sun Plate
• The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grissons Plate
• Calais Pier: An English Packet Boat Arriving. Plate
• The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
• Dido Building Carthage. Plate
• The Fall of Shaffhausen. Discussion
• The Fighting Temeraire. Plate --Thackeray on The Fighting Temeraire
• The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides. Plate
• Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) — The Morning after the Deluge — Moses writing the Book of Genesis. Plate

• Mercury and Argus. Ruskin's discussion
• Rain, Steam, Speed. Plate -- Thackeray on the painting
• Shade and Darkness — the Evening of the Deluge. Plate
• Slave Ship.
  • Ruskin's famous description in Modern Painters
  • In relation to Turner's color symbolism
• Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth. Plate -- Discussion in relation to the sublime.
• Stormy Sea with Blazing Wreck. Plate
• Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus. Plate -- Discussion

Discusisons

• The Ruskinian Sublime (Ch. 4, Helsinger, Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder)

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