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Title: Sketches of great painters for young people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Painters
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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takes place. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemuswas painted some years later, and is another picturewith the true spirit of the Greek legend in it. Ulysses,having put out the one eye of the giant Polyphemus,sets off from the shore in his magnificent ship, leavinghim to rage in agony on the top of the cliff. Smokestill rises from the fire in which was heated the staffthat put out the monsters eye. The ship is sailing offin the early morning, and the whole picture is aglowwith the golden and crimson light of the rising sun.The picture shows Turners power as a colorist and asa painter of the splendor of the sky. He was a Prome-theus among painters, for, like the mighty giant of oldwho lighted his torch at the chariot of the Sun, lie wasthe first who dared to snatch the fiery gorgeousness ofsunrise and sunset and transfer them to his canvas. Carthage seemed to have a great fascination for Tur-ner, and he painted a number of pictures of the won-derful city. Dido Building Carthage is the finest of
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262 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. them all. He felt that this picture was worthy to rankwith Claude Lorraines superb seaports, for by the pro-visions of his will it was to be placed beside one ofClaudes in the National Gallery. The Sun Rising in aMist was left with the same conditions. No account of Turners work would be completewithout mention of his ships, the companions of hisboyhood, as he wandered beneath London Bridge at allhours, watching the changing aspects of the river andthe play of light on the sails and the dark hulls. Hepainted ships upon ships, — those that had fought andwon, those that had been vanquished, and the fishingboats sailing peacefully on river and sea. Trafalgar, or the Death of Nelson, painted in 1805,represents the battle as seen from Lord Nelsons ship,the Victory. To the right is the Redoubtable, andbeyond is the Temeraire. Nelson has just been carrieddown from the quarter deck, having been struck by ashot fired from the mast of the Redoubtable. The Fight

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