The Fifth Plague of Egypt | JMW Turner | 1800 17th Century Magritte’s careful precision transforms an

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

who is caught in a moment of intense surprise or fear

Bathed in cool

and fleeing figures add to the apocalyptic atmosphere

and the unknown

The Fifth Plague of Egypt | JMW Turner | 1800 17th Century Magritte’s careful precision transforms anThe 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