The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum [SEP] creator
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum is a large 1822 painting by English artist John Martin. It follows the pattern set by his previous successful painting, "Belshazzar's Feast", being another depiction of a dramatic scene from history on a grand scale. The work was lost from sight in the Tate Gallery storerooms soon after it was damaged by the 1928 Thames flood but rediscovered there in 1973 and restored in 2011.
The painting.
Unusually, Martin was commissioned to paint the subject
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