How does Joseph Mallord William Turner's Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps demonstrate the characteristics of the dramatic style of Romantic landscape paintings?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Dramatic landscape painting emphasized turbulent or fantastic natural scenery, often shaken by natural disasters such as storms and avalanches, and aimed to stir viewer's emotions and arouse a feeling of awe.
2. Turner's painting depicts an enormous vortex of wind, mist, and snow that masks the sun and threatens to annihilate the soldiers marching below it.
3. Barely visible in the distance is the figure of Hannibal who led his troops through the Alps to meet the Roman army in 218 BCE, and Turner probably meant this painting to be an allegory of the Napoleonic Wars during which Napoleon himself crossed the Alps.
4. Turner's painting evokes notions of the sublime because it uses the awe-inspiring and transcendent power of nature.
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