 Sublimity in a representational art such as painting is a different matter. John Martin’s wonderful painting Apocalypse, for example, does evoke a kind of terror, at least imagined terror. And then we might plausibly say that this sublimity is not a kind of beauty. It is a kind of artistic excellence. What this suggests is that is that we should avoid a unitary theory of the sublime. Some sublimity is a way of being beautiful, and some is not.