J.M.W. TURNER (1775-1851)
Mont Blanc (4,808.13 m - 15,776.7 ft)
France - Italy border
In Bonneville, Savoy, with Mont Blanc, 1803, Oil on Canvas, 92 x 123.2 cm,
The Dallas Museum of Art (Gift of Nancy Hamon)
The mountain
Mont Blanc (in French) or Monte Bianco (in Italian), both meaning "White Mountain",
is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Europe after the
Caucasus peaks. It rises 4,808.73 m (15,777 ft) above sea level and is
ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence. The Mont Blanc is one of the Seven Summit, which includes the
highest mountains of each of the seven continents. Summiting all of
them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first achieved on April
30, 1985 by Richard Bass. The 7 highest summit, (which are obviously 8
with 2 in Europe !) are :
Mount Everest (8,848m), Aconcagua (6,961m), Mt Denali or Mc Kinley (6,194m), Kilimandjaro (5,895m), Mt Elbrus (5,642m), Mount Vinson (4,892m) and Mount Kosciuszko (2,228m) in Australia.
The mountain lies in a range called the Graian Alps, between the regions
of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France. The
location of the summit is on the watershed line between the valleys of
Ferret and Veny in Italy and the valleys of Montjoie, and Arve in
France. The Mont Blanc massif is popular for mountaineering, hiking,
skiing, and snowboarding.
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The painter
The english painter Joseph Mallord William Turner was considered a
controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who
elevated landscape painting to an eminence in the history of painting.
Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the
greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is
commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.
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