Jump to content
Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia

Venice from the Giudecca

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Venice from the Giudecca
ArtistJ. M. W. Turner
Year1840
TypeOil on canvas, landscape
Dimensions61 c×ばつ 91.4 cm (24 in×ばつ 36.0 in)
LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

Venice from the Giudecca is an 1840 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner.[1] [2] It depicts a view of Venice, then part of the Austrian Empire. It features the white dome of the Santa Maria della Salute seen from the island of Giudecca.

It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1840 along with another view of the city Venice, the Bridge of Sighs , where it received a mixed reception.Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been donated by the art collector John Sheepshanks in 1857.[3]

See also

[edit ]

References

[edit ]
  1. ^ Reynolds p.193
  2. ^ Costello p 163
  3. ^ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O56525

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.
  • Finberg, Alexander Joseph. In Venice with Turner. Cotswold Gallery, 1930.
  • Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
  • Reynolds, Graham. Turner. Thames & Hudson, 2022.
Paintings
Prints
Museums
Related
Stub icon

This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /