1832, J.M.W. Turner, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: This painting was so popular that visitors to the Royal Academy were advised to arrive at opening time to avoid the crowds. Art critics, however, slated Turner's colouring. Its red glow', said one, was 'fatiguing to the eye. Another reminded Turner that his hero, 17th-century landscape master Claude, painted Italy in hues subtler than the 'colours of the rainbow. Its title refers to a poem by the most gossiped-about poet of the day, Lord Byron. Turner showed his painting with lines from Byron's poem: ' ...and now, fair Italy! / Thou are the garden of the world….’
1832, J.M.W. Turner, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: This painting was so popular that visitors to the Royal Academy were advised to arrive at opening time to avoid the crowds. Art critics, however, slated Turner's colouring. Its red glow', said one, was 'fatiguing to the eye. Another reminded Turner that his hero, 17th-century landscape master Claude, painted Italy in hues subtler than the 'colours of the rainbow. Its title refers to a poem by the most gossiped-about poet of the day, Lord Byron. Turner showed his painting with lines from Byron's poem: ' ...and now, fair Italy! / Thou are the garden of the world….’