The Fifth Plague of Egypt | JMW Turner | 1800 17th Century who is caught in a

who is caught in a moment of intense surprise or fear

1505) by Lorenzo Lotto is a symbolic Renaissance painting illustrating the moral choices between good and evil

part of his broader critique of 18th-century Spanish society

Magritte’s careful precision transforms an ordinary landscape into something uncanny

and the unknown

The Fifth Plague of Egypt | JMW Turner | 1800 17th Century who is caught in aThe Fifth Plague of Egypt is an oil painting by Romantic English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner currently in the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Despite its title, it depicts Moses cursing the Egyptians with a plague of hail and fire, known as the seventh plague. In the foreground, two dead horses and a dead man are piled together, casualties of the earlier plague of pestilence in livestock. To the right, Moses stands