Turner and Venice

by Warrell, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781854374806
• ISBN10: 185437480X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

One of the world's most beautiful cities is pictured here through the eyes of one of the world's best-loved artists. J.M.W. Turner's translucent, atmospheric paintings and watercolors of Venice have long been celebrated as among the most extraordinary creations of this popular artist's later career. Few other artists have responded with such imaginative inventiveness to the magical combination of water, light, and architecture that is Venice. This beautifully produced book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition that comes to the Kimbell Art Museum this spring, features the largest selection of Turner's paintings and watercolors of Venice ever published, some reproduced for the first time. The texts include contributions by travel writer Jan Morris and historian David Laven, who bring their perspective to the city as it was when visited by Britain's greatest painter.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Sponsor's Foreword	p. 8
Acknowledgements	p. 9
Turner, Venice, the Generals and Me	p. 10
Turner and Venice	p. 14
Approaches to Venice	p. 30
Venice under the Austrians	p. 34
Catalogue
'No One Enters Venice as a Stranger'
Beyond Canaletto's Venice	p. 43
Turner and Venetian Painting	p. 53
From Shakespeare to Byron: Turner and the Literary Vision of Venice	p. 69
Discovering Venice 1819-40
Sketching the City	p. 83
Contemporary Approaches to Venice in British Art	p. 101
Locating Turner's Venice
Monumental Venice	p. 119
Venice after Dark	p. 131
The Grand Canal	p. 149
The Giudecca Canal	p. 179
The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore	p. 197
The Bacino and the Riva degli Schiavoni	p. 207
Away from the City	p. 233
Epilogue: The Legacy of Turner's Venice	p. 251
The papers used for Turner's Venetian Watercolours	p. 258
Notes	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 266
List of Works	p. 270
Lenders	p. 274
Photographic Credits	p. 274
Index	p. 275
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