Approach to Venice
| Approach to Venice | |
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| Artist | J. M. W. Turner |
| Year | 1844 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape |
| Dimensions | 62 cm × 94 cm (24 in × 37 in) |
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Approach to Venice is an 1844 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner.[1][2] Produced late in the artist's career, it depicts a view of Venice from the North, across the Lagoon.[3] Turner produced many views of Venice during the 1830s and 1840s, depicting it in Romantic pre-Impressionist style.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844 at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square with a couplet from Lord Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. It was described by John Ruskin as "the most perfectly beautiful piece of colour of all I have seen produced by human hands, by any means, or at any period".[4] Today the work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., having been acquired in 1937.[5]
See also
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
- Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History. Routledge, 2017.
- Hamilton, James (ed.) Turner and Italy. National Galleries of Scotland, 2009.
- Reynolds, Graham. Turner. Thames & Hudson, 2022.
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