The Fall of Anarchy: Politics and Anatomy in an Enigmatic Painting by J.M.W. Turner

The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that has baffled generations of scholars. It has been proposed that it is a response to the death of Turner’s father in 1829 or to the cholera outbreak of 1832 but these suggestions are at best...

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Main Author: Sam Smiles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tate 2016-06-01
Series:Tate Papers
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Online Access:http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/25/fall-of-anarchy-politics-anatomy-turner