Reason Dazzled: The All-Seeing and the Unseeing in Turner's Regulus
This article proposes a reinterpretation of Turner’s Regulus (1827; 1838), an enigmatic painting named after a legendary Roman general whom the Carthaginians, cutting off his eyelids and placing him in the direct light of the sun, first blinded and then killed. “Reason Dazzled”, which takes its titl...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2020-02-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
| Online Access: | http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-15/turners-regulus |