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Scientific Light

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English painter J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) has been called the ‘painter of light’. He developed new artistic techniques to capture natural phenomena, evoking t..

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J.M. Turner. Part 2

United Kingdom, 1972
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Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis

1843
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K VII

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J.M. Turner. Part 1

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Lecture Diagram: Reflections in a Transparent Globe Part of II. Various Perspective Diagrams

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The Texture of light: The Astronomer (1668) Johannes Vermeer

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c. 1810
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Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge

1843
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The Angel Standing in the Sun

1846
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