Editing Storm (section)

=== In fine art ===
[[File:Rembrandt Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee.jpg|thumb|[[Rembrandt]]'s 1633 ''[[The Storm on the Sea of Galilee]]''.]]

The Romantic seascape painters [[J. M. W. Turner]] and [[Ivan Aivazovsky]] created some of the most lasting impressions of the sublime and stormy seas that are firmly imprinted on the popular mind. Turner's representations of powerful natural forces reinvented the traditional [[seascape]] during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Upon his travels to Holland, he took note of the familiar large rolling waves of the English seashore transforming into the sharper, [[choppy waves]] of a Dutch storm. A characteristic example of Turner's dramatic seascape is ''[[The Slave Ship]]'' of 1840. Aivazovsky left several thousand turbulent canvases in which he increasingly eliminated human figures and historical background to focus on such essential elements as light, sea, and sky. His grandiose ''Ninth Wave'' (1850) is an ode to human daring in the face of the elements.