English-American painter Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) created a series of five images depicting the rise and the destruction of an imaginary coastal city. The series is entitled "The Course of Empire". Above, the fourth painting depicts the catastrophe and destruction of...
In the Greek myth of Decalion and Pyrrha, the couple recreates mankind after the universal deluge by throwing rocks over their shoulders to let them grow into men and women. Why rocks? And why over their shoulders? Is this how a community, a city is rebuilt? Ovid...
Gédéon Reverdin: Étude dessinée d'après le tableau d'une Scène de Déluge peint par A.L. Girodet (1828). Here is the original painting by Girodet from 1806.
This painting shows a scene from early buddhist texts from the 3. and 4. Century AD: When Mara, the God of Death, attacked Siddhattha, Siddhattha called on Vasundhara, also referred to as Bhumi or Mother Earth, to save him. Vasundhara creates a massive flood by...
John Martin’s oil painting, acquired by Tate Gallery London in 1869, imagines the extent of the disaster that famously beset the sister cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August AD 79.The painting was first exhibited in...
In this image from the disaster movie "2012" (200) the visual style is clearly remeniscent of Rennaissance and medieval paintings. This shot in particular reminds me of depictions of Golgatha. USA; 21. Century; Christian; Film; Art History;
Painting from 1884 depicting the flight of the king from the sinking city of Ys. France; 19. Century; Chistian; Painting; City: Ys