The Romantic art movement in European art endured approximately sixty years, from the late eighteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century. This horrific image by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner betrays this artist’s engagement with the … Continue reading
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and the Dying – Typhoon Coming On (The Slave Ship), 1840, oil on canvas, 35 ¼” x 48”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.