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The City of God

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Type
Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date
ca. 1850
Accession number
2018.7
Maker
John Martin(Opens in new tab) (British, 1789–1854)
Dimensions
18 × 26 in. (45.7 × 66 cm.)
Medium
oil on canvas
Description
This painting shows a highly dramatic image of a natural landscape that represents the Christian heaven.
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Adele S. Browning Memorial Art Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Bender, Mr. Stewart R. Smith and Ms. Robin A. Ferracone, and James R. Parks
Department
European Art
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View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
The City of God exhibits many of the hallmarks of Martin’s iconic artistic style: dramatic depiction of deep space, atmosphere suffused with otherworldly light, and the outsized relationship of landscape forms to human figures. His visual representation of the Christian heaven appears as a gleaming city beyond the setting’s verdant valley and placid waters.

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