Who painted Shade and Darkness?

J.M.W. Turner painted Shade and Darkness in 1844.

What Bible passage does Shade and Darkness depict?

Shade and Darkness depicts the biblical scene from Genesis 7:17-23.

Where is Shade and Darkness located?

Shade and Darkness is housed at Tate Britain, Millbank, London.

Shade and Darkness by J.M.W. Turner

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Pair to 'Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory), The Morning after the Deluge - Moses writing the Book of Genesis'. In these companion pictures, Turner opposes cool and warm colours, and their contrasting emotional associations, as described by Goethe in his 'Farbenlehre' (Theory of Colours). Turner has chosen the biblical Deluge as the vehicle for these ideas, returning to the Historical Sublime he had mastered in some of his earliest exhibition pictures. Originally painted and framed as octagons, this pair carries two of Turner's last and most inspired statements of the natural vortex, while the allusion to Goethe adds a gloss of recent science and theory to a lifetime's preoccupation with elemental forces.

Details

Artist: J.M.W. Turner
Created: c. 1844
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimension: 78cm × 79cm
Passage: Genesis 7:17-23
Housed at: Tate Britain Millbank, London

Found in: Genesis, Genesis 7, 19th century, Flood

Genesis 7:17-23

17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

20 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

Genesis 7:17-23 · World English Bible

The artist

J.M.W. Turner

1775 - 1851

Covet Garden, England

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.