1. The Fighting Termeraire, J.M. W. Turner, 1775-1851
... Magazine said; "it is very beautiful - a very poetical conception; here is genius". One of the most beautiful paragraphs in English prose was written by Ruskin on seeing the Temeraire for the first time," We have stern keepers to trust to her glory to - the fire and the worm. Never more shall ... Union said, " The picture is, indeed, a nobly composed poem, - one to which the peer of genius can add nothing in the way of illustration. John Ruskin, one of Turner most famous critics believes that this was the last perfect picture that Turner painted at the age of 64. He wrote - " the last .....
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