{ "schema": "nephos.prior-scholarship.v1", "compiled": "2026-09-07", "items": [ { "id": "bonacina-1937-constable-weather", "authors": [ "Bonacina, L. C. W." ], "title": "John Constable's Centenary: His Position as a Painter of Weather", "container": "Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society", "year": 1937, "volume": "63", "pages": "483-490", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49706327204", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The verified record establishes a journal article assessing Constable specifically as a painter of weather; no abstract or article text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "badt-1950-constables-clouds", "authors": [ "Badt, Kurt" ], "title": "John Constable's Clouds", "container": "Routledge & K. Paul", "year": 1950, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://obnb.uk/p6972209-john-constables-clouds", "locator_type": "repository", "what_it_did": "Its accessible contents list sections on Goethe and Luke Howard, Constable's cloud studies, Constable and meteorologists, and relations between science and art, but no chapter text was available.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-howard", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "hawes-1969-sky-sketches", "authors": [ "Hawes, Louis" ], "title": "Constable's Sky Sketches", "container": "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes", "year": 1969, "volume": "32", "pages": "344-365", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.2307/750618", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The verified JSTOR record establishes an article devoted to Constable's sky sketches; no abstract or article text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "thornes-1978-accurate-dating", "authors": [ "Thornes, John B." ], "title": "The Accurate Dating of Certain of John Constable's Cloud Studies 1821-22 Using Historical Weather Records", "container": "Department of Geography, University College London, Occasional Papers 34", "year": 1978, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://obnb.uk/p10997398-the-accurate-dating-of-certain-of-john-constables-cloud-studies-1821-22-using-historical-weather-records", "locator_type": "repository", "what_it_did": "The national bibliography identifies a 30-page report on dating Constable's 1821-22 cloud studies with historical weather records; no abstract or full text was available.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "thornes-1979-weather-dating", "authors": [ "Thornes, John E." ], "title": "The Weather Dating of John Constable's Cloud Studies", "container": "Weather", "year": 1979, "volume": "34", "pages": "308-315", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1979.tb03458.x", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The publisher metadata identifies this as a weather-dating study of Constable's cloud studies; no abstract or article text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "thornes-1979-constables-clouds", "authors": [ "Thornes, John E." ], "title": "Constable's Clouds", "container": "The Burlington Magazine", "year": 1979, "volume": "121", "pages": "697-699, 701-704", "locator_url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/879803", "locator_type": "jstor", "what_it_did": "Thornes examined Constable's annotations in Thomas Forster's meteorological book against Luke Howard's classification, finding strong evidence of meteorological knowledge while stopping short of claiming that Howard inspired the 1821-22 studies.", "verification": "read-full", "relevance": "constable-howard", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "thornes-1984-howard-influence", "authors": [ "Thornes, John E." ], "title": "Luke Howard's Influence on Art and Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century", "container": "Weather", "year": 1984, "volume": "39", "pages": "252-255", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1984.tb06787.x", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The verified publisher record establishes an article on Luke Howard's influence on early nineteenth-century art and literature; no abstract or article text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-howard", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "boudreau-1998-artist-scientist", "authors": [ "Boudreau, Beverley A." ], "title": "John Constable's 1821 and 1822 Cloud Studies: The Artist as a Scientist?", "container": "Weather", "year": 1998, "volume": "53", "pages": "357-362", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1998.tb06343.x", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The verified publisher record establishes an article asking whether Constable's 1821 and 1822 cloud studies can be understood as a scientist's work; no abstract or article text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "thornes-1999-constables-skies", "authors": [ "Thornes, John E." ], "title": "John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science", "container": "University of Birmingham Press", "year": 1999, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://search.worldcat.org/title/john-constables-skies-a-fusion-of-art-and-science/oclc/42624209", "locator_type": "worldcat", "what_it_did": "The catalogue identifies a 288-page book devoted to Constable's skies and explicitly framed as a fusion of art and science; no abstract or book text was available.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "morris-2000-constables-clouds", "authors": [ "Morris, Edward" ], "title": "Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable", "container": "Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland and Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside", "year": 2000, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/publication/Constables-clouds-paintings-and-cloud-studies-by-John-Constable--38d9c2807579b54832e9a4014a5cd4ed", "locator_type": "museum", "what_it_did": "The museum catalogue record identifies this as the 2000 exhibition catalogue devoted to Constable's paintings and cloud studies; no essay text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "hamblyn-2001-invention-clouds", "authors": [ "Hamblyn, Richard" ], "title": "The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies", "container": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux", "year": 2001, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://openlibrary.org/works/OL222362W/The_Invention_of_Clouds", "locator_type": "repository", "what_it_did": "The publisher synopsis presents a history of Luke Howard's cloud nomenclature and describes its influence on contemporaries including Constable, Goethe, and Shelley.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "constable-howard", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "wood-2007-constable-climate-change", "authors": [ "Wood, Gillen D'Arcy" ], "title": "Constable, Clouds, Climate Change", "container": "The Wordsworth Circle", "year": 2007, "volume": "38", "pages": "25-33", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1086/twc24043954", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The institutional record establishes a peer-reviewed article focused on Constable's clouds and climate change; no abstract or article text was available at the locator.", "verification": "existence-only", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "broglio-2008-technologies-picturesque", "authors": [ "Broglio, Ron" ], "title": "Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments, 1750-1830", "container": "Bucknell University Press", "year": 2008, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://www1.bucknell.edu/script/upress/book.asp?id=329", "locator_type": "publisher", "what_it_did": "The publisher synopsis says the book traces how meteorology, cartography, and animal breeding shaped picturesque representation in works by Constable and other British artists and writers.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "constable-howard", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "jankovic-2020-verite-atmosphere", "authors": [ "Jankovic, Vladimir" ], "title": "La vérité dans l'atmosphère: lire les ciels de Constable", "container": "Revue de l'Art", "year": 2020, "volume": "210", "pages": "41-49", "locator_url": "https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/la-v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9-dans-latmosph%C3%A8re-lire-les-ciels-de-constable/", "locator_type": "repository", "what_it_did": "Jankovic argued that Constable approached cloud studies systematically but transformed atmospheric phenomena into idealized visual and emotional forms rather than straightforward documentary records.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "constable-skies", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "robbins-2021-aesthetics-climate", "authors": [ "Robbins, Nicholas" ], "title": "John Constable, Luke Howard, and the Aesthetics of Climate", "container": "The Art Bulletin", "year": 2021, "volume": "103", "pages": "50-76", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2021.1847578", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "Robbins read Constable's inscribed studies and paintings alongside Howard's observations, tables, and graphs as parallel attempts to represent climate across immediate sensation and aggregated time rather than as a simple line of influence.", "verification": "read-full", "relevance": "constable-howard", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "baker-thornes-2006-monet-solar-position", "authors": [ "Baker, Jacob", "Thornes, John E." ], "title": "Solar Position within Monet's Houses of Parliament", "container": "Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences", "year": 2006, "volume": "462", "pages": "3775-3788", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2006.1754", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "Baker and Thornes measured the painted Sun against architectural reference points and calculated solar tracks to derive dates, times, and Monet's vantage point for nine Houses of Parliament paintings.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "comparable-method", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "zerefos-et-al-2007-volcanic-eruptions", "authors": [ "Zerefos, C. 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C.", "Kazantzidis, A." ], "title": "Atmospheric Effects of Volcanic Eruptions as Seen by Famous Artists and Depicted in Their Paintings", "container": "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", "year": 2007, "volume": "7", "pages": "4027-4042", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-7-4027-2007", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The authors measured red-to-green ratios in dated sunset paintings, including works by Turner, and used radiative-transfer modelling to reconstruct aerosol optical depth after major eruptions from 1500 to 1900.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "turner-atmosphere", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "khan-et-al-2010-monet-savoy", "authors": [ "Khan, Soraya", "Thornes, John E.", "Baker, Jacob", "Olson, Donald W.", "Doescher, Russell L." ], "title": "Monet at the Savoy", "container": "Area", "year": 2010, "volume": "42", "pages": "208-216", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00913.x", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The authors used solar geometry to date four Waterloo Bridge paintings and one Charing Cross Bridge painting, then checked the probable dates against Monet's letters and contemporary weather records.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "comparable-method", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "mohan-2014-monet-impression-sunrise", "authors": [ "Mohan, Geoffrey" ], "title": "Physicist Puts Time on Timeless Monet Painting", "container": "Los Angeles Times", "year": 2014, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-impressionism-monet-astronomy-20140902-story.html", "locator_type": "news", "what_it_did": "Mohan reported Donald Olson's dating of Monet's Impression, Sunrise by combining the reconstructed viewpoint, solar geometry, tide levels, wind direction, and historical weather observations.", "verification": "read-full", "relevance": "comparable-method", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "zerefos-et-al-2014-red-green-ratios", "authors": [ "Zerefos, C. S.", "Tetsis, P.", "Kazantzidis, A.", "Amiridis, V.", "Zerefos, S. C.", "Luterbacher, J.", "Eleftheratos, K.", "Gerasopoulos, E.", "Kazadzis, S.", "Papayannis, A." ], "title": "Further Evidence of Important Environmental Information Content in Red-to-Green Ratios as Depicted in Paintings by Great Masters", "container": "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", "year": 2014, "volume": "14", "pages": "2987-3015", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2987-2014", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "The authors tested painting-image colour measurements against precision photography, independent aerosol proxies, and a co-located painting experiment before using red-to-green ratios to estimate historical aerosol optical depth.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "turner-atmosphere", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "olson-2022-investigating-art-astronomy", "authors": [ "Olson, Donald W." ], "title": "Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy: Determining Time, Place, and Other Hidden Details Linked to the Stars", "container": "Springer Cham", "year": 2022, "volume": null, "pages": null, "locator_url": "https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-95554-0", "locator_type": "publisher", "what_it_did": "Olson set out a practical workflow combining astronomy software with archives, maps, letters, and diaries and presented art case studies involving Vermeer, Monet, and Turner's early oil paintings.", "verification": "read-abstract", "relevance": "comparable-method", "checked": "2026-09-07" }, { "id": "albright-huybers-2023-turner-monet-pollution", "authors": [ "Albright, Anna Lea", "Huybers, Peter" ], "title": "Paintings by Turner and Monet Depict Trends in 19th Century Air Pollution", "container": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", "year": 2023, "volume": "120", "pages": "e2219118120", "locator_url": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219118120", "locator_type": "doi", "what_it_did": "Albright and Huybers quantified contrast and intensity in 60 Turner and 38 Monet paintings and modelled their association with historical sulfur dioxide emissions while controlling for time trends and subject matter.", "verification": "read-full", "relevance": "turner-atmosphere", "checked": "2026-09-07" } ] }