Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851): An Overview
General
Turner and the sister arts
Turner's Lectures on the Arts
Ruskin on Turner's Isolation
Ruskin on Turner's Color
Ruskin on Turner's "palpitating, perpetual change"
Turner, Wordsworth, and the Sublime
Turner and the Picturesque
Turner and Pathetic Fallacy
Ruskin's allegorical interpretations of Turner
Individual Works
Apollo and Python
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Discussion
The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grissons
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Calais Pier: An English Packet Boat Arriving
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Dido Building Carthage
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The Fall of Shaffhausen
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The Fighting Temeraire
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Thackeray on
The Fighting Temeraire
The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides
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Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) — The Morning after the Deluge — Moses writing the Book of Genesis
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Mercury and Argus
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Ruskin's discussion
Rain, Steam, Speed
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Thackeray on the painting
Shade and Darkness — the Evening of the Deluge
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Plate
Slave Ship
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Ruskin's famous description in
Modern Painters
In relation to Turner's color symbolism
Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour's Mouth
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Discussion in relation to the sublime.
Stormy Sea with Blazing Wreck
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Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
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Discussion
Last modified 10 June 2005