To: aruanan
The painting is The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin, 1852.
To: conservativeimage.com
The painting is The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin, 1852.
The semi-silhouetting of the buildings in the distance against that bright sulfur yellow with the curtain of red that disappears like virago, makes it seem as though we are off-stage, just getting a peek into a scene of unimaginably intense action.
49 posted on
05/15/2012 2:40:05 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: conservativeimage.com
It reminds me a little of a rotten apple and a skull, perhaps a hint of the innocence lost after the Fall, but it also looks like one of those images of a nuclear blast taken microseconds after detonation:
![](http://www.sott.net/image/image/s3/66132/full/ff.jpg)
![](http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/article_images/007.JPG)
50 posted on
05/15/2012 2:59:11 AM PDT by
aruanan
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