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Joseph Mallord William Turner - Modern Rome, Campo Vaccino [1839]
Ten years after his final journey to Rome, Turner envisioned the Eternal City through a veil of memory. Baroque churches and ancient monuments in and around the Roman Forum seem to dissolve in iridescent light shed by a moon rising at left and a sun setting behind the Capitoline Hill at right. Amidst these splendors, the city's inhabitants carry on with their daily activities. The picture's nacreous palette and shimmering light effects exemplify Turner at his most accomplished. The painting is in a remarkable state of preservation and remains untouched since it left Turner's hands.
[Getty Centre, Los Angeles - Oil on canvas, 36.125 x 48.25 inches]
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Modern Rome, Campo Vaccino [1839]
Ten years after his final journey to Rome, Turner envisioned the Eternal City through a veil of memory. Baroque churches and ancient monuments in and around the Roman Forum seem to dissolve in iridescent light shed by a moon rising at left and a sun setting behind the Capitoline Hill at right. Amidst these splendors, the city's inhabitants carry on with their daily activities. The picture's nacreous palette and shimmering light effects exemplify Turner at his most accomplished. The painting is in a remarkable state of preservation and remains untouched since it left Turner's hands.
[Getty Centre, Los Angeles - Oil on canvas, 36.125 x 48.25 inches]