John Martin, Belshazzar’s Feast, 1820. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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John Martin, Belshazzar’s Feast, 1820. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

REFERENCES:

John Martin has become a popular subject.

The best recent books, however, by Martin Myrone, J. Dustin Wees, and Morton D. Paley, are already out of print. Martin Meisel is excellent on contemporary theater and spectacle.
 

Myrone, Martin. John Martin: Apocalypse. Exh. cat. London: Tate Britain, 2011–12: 11–21, 99–108, 225.
Wees, J. Dustin. Darkness Visible: The Prints of John Martin. Exh. cat. Williamstown, Mass.: Clark Art Institute, 1986: 2–4, 29–38.

Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983: 17–28, 166–88.
Paley, Morton D. The Apocalyptic Sublime. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986: 122–54, 189–90.

Daniel 5. NIV Bible.