1839, J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)'
From the museum label: Ten years after his final journey to Rome, Turner envisioned the Eternal City through a shimmering veil of memory and imagination. 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. Amid these splendors, the city's inhabitants carry on with their daily activities. Untouched since it left Turner's hands, the painting is in a remarkable state of preservation. It is shown here in the frame originally chosen by the artist.
1839, J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)'
From the museum label: Ten years after his final journey to Rome, Turner envisioned the Eternal City through a shimmering veil of memory and imagination. 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. Amid these splendors, the city's inhabitants carry on with their daily activities. Untouched since it left Turner's hands, the painting is in a remarkable state of preservation. It is shown here in the frame originally chosen by the artist.