The Mountain Sublime of Philip James de Loutherbourg and Joseph Mallord William Turner

Our analysis of the concept of saliency relies on two iconographic representations of Alpine relief. One is from Philip James de Loutherbourg (An Avalanche in the Alps, 1803); the other from Joseph Mallord William Turner (The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons, 1810). This comparative study comes w...

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Main Author: Aurélie Tremblet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine 2016-09-01
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rga/3395