洪水即将结束 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	洪水即将结束
品名（英）	The Deluge towards Its Close
入馆年号	1909年，09.14
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Joshua Shaw【1776 至 1861】【美国人，出生于英国】
创作年份	公元 1810 - 公元 1816
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尺寸	48 1/4 x 66 英寸 (122.6 x 167.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	《创世纪》将洪水描述为对人类公然罪恶的压倒性惩罚，其表现可以追溯到文艺复兴早期。在肖氏时代，J·M·W·特纳和本杰明·韦斯特也画过这个主题。在博物馆于1813年左右绘制的对黑暗和荒凉的可怕描绘中，肖得益于维斯特对主题的处理，他将维斯特那棵被连根拔起的树作为自己画作的前景，这棵树斜躺在地球上，周围是溺水者的可怕尸体，上面挂着一条巨大的蛇的软弱无力的尸体。维斯特似乎并不介意肖的借用，并写信给他，高度赞扬了这幅极具浪漫和情感的画面。乔舒亚·肖（Joshua Shaw）是一位英国艺术家，在创作《洪水》（The Deluge）四年后，他来到这个国家时已经四十岁了。他受过良好的训练，在风景画领域取得了相当大的成功。
介绍（英）	Representations of the Flood, described in Genesis as the overwhelming punishment for humanity’s flagrant sins, go back to the early Renaissance. In Shaw’s day, J. M. W. Turner and Benjamin West also painted this subject. In the Museum’s terrifying depiction of the darkness and desolation, painted about 1813, Shaw is indebted to West’s treatment of the theme, adopting for the foreground of his own painting West’s uprooted tree, which lies diagonally on the earth, surrounded by the ghastly bodies of the drowned, and festooned with the limp carcass of a gigantic snake. West seems not to have minded Shaw’s borrowing and wrote to him in high praise of this powerfully romantic and emotional picture. Joshua Shaw was an English artist who was forty when he came to this country, four years after painting "The Deluge". He had been well trained and enjoyed considerable success in the field of landscape painting.