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The Fall of Nineveh, painting by John Martin (1829), inspired by Edwin Atherstone's poem. The Fall of Nineveh is a long poem in blank verse by Edwin Atherstone. [1] It consists of thirty books preceded by a Prelude. The poem was written over many years and published 1828–1868.
He wrote also The Last Days of Herculaneum; and, Abradates and Panthea: Poems (1821), A Midsummer Day's Dream: a Poem (1824) and Israel in Egypt: a Poem (1861). [2] He was a close friend and associate of the painter John Martin, whose well-known painting "The Fall of Nineveh" was produced in conjunction with Atherstone's poem. [3]
John Martin, Belshazzar's Feast, c. 1821; half-size sketch held by the Yale Center for British Art Belshazzar's Feast is an oil painting by British painter John Martin (1789–1854). It was first exhibited at the British Institution in February 1821 and won a prize of £200 (equivalent to £21,536 in 2023) for the best picture.
John Martin, The Fall of Nineveh. Atherstone's friend, artist John Martin, created a painting of the same name inspired by the poem. English poet John Masefield's well-known, fanciful 1903 poem Cargoes mentions Nineveh in its first line. Nineveh is also mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's 1897 poem Recessional [100] and Arthur O'Shaughnessy's 1873 ...
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romanticist painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes.
The Fall of Nineveh, by John Martin. 619 BC: Alyattes becomes king of Lydia. 619 BC: Death of King Xiang of Zhou, king of the Zhou dynasty of China. 618 BC: King Qing of Zhou becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China. 616 BC: Lucius Tarquinius Priscus becomes king of Rome. 614 BC: Sack of Ashur by the Medes and Babylonians.
John Martin's painting, shows the biblical story of the destruction of the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which was God's punishment for the two cities for people's immoral behavior. Only Lot and his daughters were saved. Lot's wife disobeyed God's instruction not to look back, and was turned into a pillar of salt. The fiery red color is ...
Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings) Book of Dede Korkut (Oghuz Turks) Le Morte d'Arthur (Middle English) Morgante (Italian) by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre; The Wallace by Blind Harry (Scots chivalric poem) Troy Book by John Lydgate, about the Trojan war (Middle English)