Painting by J. M. W. Turner
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]
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References
Bibliography
- 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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- Lambeth Palace (1790)
- The Rising Squall (1792)
- Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
- Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
- Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
- Fishermen at Sea (1796)
- Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
- Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
- Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
- Dunstanburgh Castle (1798)
- Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
- Buttermere Lake (1798)
- Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
- Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
- Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
- Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
- View of a Town (c. 1798)
- Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
- Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
- View in Wales (c. 1799–1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
- Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
- View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
- The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1800)
- Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
- Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather (1802)
- The Tenth Plague of Egypt (1802)
- Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland (1802)
- Jason (1802)
- Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
- Bonneville, Savoy (1803)
- Calais Pier (1803)
- The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon (1803)
- The Destruction of Sodom (1805)
- The Deluge (1805)
- The Shipwreck (1805)
- Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
- Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1806)
- The Thames at Weybridge (1806)
- Walton Bridges (1806)
- Cliveden on Thames (1807)
- A Country Blacksmith (1807)
- Linlithgow Palace (1807)
- Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
- Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
- The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807)
- The Forest of Bere (1808)
- Pope's Villa at Twickenham (1808)
- Sheerness as Seen from the Nore (1808)
- The Unpaid Bill (1808)
- View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
- Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand (1809)
- The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
- London from Greenwich Park (1809)
- Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
- The Trout Stream (1809)
- Sun Setting through Vapour (1809)
- The Fish Market at Hastings Beach (1810)
- High Street, Oxford (1810)
- Apollo and Python (1811)
- Somer Hill, Tonbridge (1811)
- Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
- Hulks on the Tamar (1811)
- Teignmouth (1812)
- Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
- Frosty Morning (1813)
- Dido and Aeneas (1814)
- Dido building Carthage (1815)
- Crossing the Brook (1815)
- The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
- Raby Castle (1817)
- Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
- The Field of Waterloo (1818)
- Richmond Hill (1819)
- Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
- Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
- George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh (1822)
- The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
- The Bay of Baiae (1823)
- The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
- Cologne (1826)
- Forum Romanum (1826)
- Mortlake Terrace (1826)
- Port Ruysdael (1826)
- Rembrandt's Daughter (1827)
- The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
- Chichester Canal (1828)
- East Cowes Castle (1828)
- Regulus (1828)
- View of Orvieto (1828)
- Vision of Medea (1828)
- The Banks of the Loire (1829)
- The Loretto Necklace (1829)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- The Evening Star (1830)
- Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
- Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
- Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
- Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple (1832)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
- The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
- Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1832)
- The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
- The Golden Bough (1834)
- Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
- St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
- The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
- Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
- Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
- Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
- Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
- Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
- The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
- Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish (1838)
- Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum (1839)
- Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
- The Slave Ship (1840)
- Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight (1840)
- Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
- Venice from the Giudecca (1840)
- Schloss Rosenau (1841)
- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
- The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa (1842)
- The Blue Rigi (1842)
- The Red Rigi (1842)
- Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
- War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
- Light and Colour (1843)
- Approach to Venice (1844)
- Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
- Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
- Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
- Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845)
- Whalers (c. 1845)
- Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
- The Hero of a Hundred Fights (1847)
- The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
- The Beacon Light (unknown)
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