This is a collection of paintings that I use in my writing and teaching. Enjoy and feel free to suggest others to add!
Portrait Series: character, class, context




Landscape Series: passages, religion, the secular, temporalities




Images, clockwise from top left: Nicholas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on Patmos (1690, Art Institute of Chicago); John Constable, The Hay Wain (1821, National Gallery, London), Constable, Stoke-by-Nayland (1836, Art Institute, Chicago); JMW Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise (1845, Tate, London)
Blake Series: enlightenments, darkness, renewals






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