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Belshazzar's Feast
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A biblical banquet scene — no real place.
- Date
- 1820-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Yale Center for British Art
In the collection of Yale Center for British Art
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- This page is the reduced version John Martin painted of his own composition — Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (Paul Mellon Collection), accession B1981.25.440; oil on canvas, ~80 × 121 cm, c. 1820 (britishart.yale.edu). The full-size prime painting (1820, ~160 × 249 cm), which caused a sensation at the British Institution, is in a private collection; a further reduced version is in the Wadsworth Atheneum
- Martin Myrone (ed.), ‘John Martin: Apocalypse’ (exh. cat., Tate Britain, 2011); William Feaver, ‘The Art of John Martin’ (Oxford, 1975)
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