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The Great Day of His Wrath

John Martin

The Great Day of His Wrath

John Martin
  • Date: 1851 - 1853
  • Style: Romanticism
  • Genre: religious painting
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Tate Britain, London, UK
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This is the third picture in Martin's great triptych, known as the Judgement Series. Along with the other two vast panels, The Last Judgement and The Plains of Heaven, it was inspired by St John the Divine's fantastic account of the Last Judgement given in Revelation, the last book of the New Testament. Martin's aim in producing this series was highly Romantic: to express the sublime, apocalyptic force of nature and the helplessness of man to combat God's will. Of all Martin's biblical scenes, this presents his most cataclysmic vision of destruction, featuring an entire city being torn up and thrown into the abyss.

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