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. Plate -- Discussion
• The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grissons Plate
• Calais Pier: An English Packet Boat Arriving. Plate
• Dido Building Carthage. Plate
• The Fall of Shaffhausen.
• 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

Last modified 10 June 2005