The Destruction of Tyre
Sodom and Gomorrah
Macbeth
John Martin (July 19, 1789 – February 17, 1854)
Vastness is his sphere, yet he has not lost or circumfused his genius in its space; he has chained and wielded and measured it at his will… He has penetrated the remote caverns of the past and gazed on the primeval shapes of the gone world.