
English painter and engraver John Martin (1789—1854) combines landscape and historical painting to illustrate a dramatic story from the Bible’s Old Testament. When...

English painter and engraver John Martin (1789—1854) combines landscape and historical painting to illustrate a dramatic story from the Bible’s Old Testament. When...

John Martin 1789—1854) was largely a self-taught artist, who achieved through his vivid imagination and bold, theatrical style an epitome of the romantic sublime in...

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841 alongside its pendant “Pandemonium” (Musée du Louvre, Paris), this magnificent painting is a masterpiece by one of the most...

In the 1820s British artist John Martin (1789—1854) produced a series of paintings depicting scenes of disaster, set in infinite, visionary spaces and full of...