Another work by this painter shows a gold pillar with a snake wrapped around it, overlooking an open-air banqueting hall whose friezes are inscribed with the signs of the zodiac.
A mezzotint by this artist is set in an assembly hall lighted by floating rings of fire and features an enthroned figure atop a massive sphere. Another work by this painter shows a gold pillar with a snake wrapped around it, overlooking an open-air banqueting hall whose friezes are inscribed with the signs of the zodiac. Confusion with his arsonist brother Jonathan led this artist to be referred to as "Mad," and his considerable influence on D. W. Griffith can be seen in Intolerance's Babylon sequence. This artist of popular illustrations for Paradise Lost often featured zigzagging bolts of lightning in his works, as in an apocalyptic scene in which (*) mountains crumble and a cityscape curls in on itself like a fiery wave. A ziggurat and the Tower of Babel appear at the back of a painting by this man showing endless banquet tables in the titular king's halls, where Daniel interprets the writing on the wall. For 10 points, name this English Romantic artist of The Great Day of His Wrath and Belshazzar's Feast.
A mezzotint by this artist is set in an assembly hall lighted by floating rings of fire and features an enthroned figure atop a massive sphere.
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