Complex sentence: According to Frances Carey, the painting shows the "destruction of Babylon and the material world by natural cataclysm", while some other scholars such as William Feaver see it as "the collapse of Edinburgh in Scotland".
Split into simpler sentences: According to Frances Carey, the painting shows the "destruction of Babylon and the material world by natural cataclysm". Some other scholars such as William Feaver see the painting as "the collapse of Edinburgh in Scotland".