Tag: Turner

Detroit Institute of Arts

Established: 1885 Opened: 1927 Address: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States Website: https://dia.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

National Museum Wales (Cardiff)

Founded: 1907 Opened: 1927 Location: Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP, Wales Website: https://museum.wales/cardiff/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See…

San Giorgio Maggiore, Early Morning (1819)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) San Giorgio Maggiore, Early Morning 1819 Watercolor, 22.3 x 28.7 cm Tate Britain, London Turner visited Venice for the first time in 1819. He stayed only a few days, but the city inspired him to make a…

Dido building Carthage (1815)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…

Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…

National Gallery (London)

Established: 1824 Location: Trafalgar Square, London WC2 Website: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The National Gallery in…

Tate Britain

Established: 1897 as National Gallery of British Art; became Tate Britain in 2000 Location: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Website: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…

Joseph Mallord William Turner

(1775–1851) The artist’s works: The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli c.1794–1797 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Self-Portrait c.1799 Tate Britain, London Copy of Poussin’s Landscape 1799 Tate Britain, London Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Tate Britain, London Mars and Venus, after Guercino…

Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Established: 1764 Location: 38 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Cental District, Saint Petersburg Website: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

National Gallery of Art (Washington)

Established: 1937 Location: National Mall between 3rd and 7th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20565 Website: https://www.nga.gov/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…