Volcano eruptions in art

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Volcano eruptions are powerful, destructive and impressive events and so they have if course been memorialized by painters. I wonder how many of the artists have actually seen a volcanic eruption and how many are painting purely from their imagination? Still, the paintings are striking.

In a lot of them they don't seem to get the ash clouds right, and the lahar, that is the volcanic slurry, is generally missing. At the end of the post (after the jump) I've included a video that shows five modern eruptions that were filmed for comparison,