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Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA 1775 - 1851. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. He became known as 'the
painter of light'.
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The Arch of Titus, Rome
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picture is described in the Official Catalogue of the National as
“Rome—the Arch of Titus and the Campo Vaccino. A religious procession in
the foreground.’ We have in other engravings the decay of ancient
civilizations with their pomp and glory. Sometimes, as in the Ancient
and Modern Italy’s, he would paint two pictures to enforce the contrast
between past and present. In one of these he emphasizes the splendour of
the Empire, its power, its luxury, and cruelty; in the other the
splendour of the natural site, and the disregard of the ancient glory of
the race shown by the de2enerate descendants who pass unmoved amongst
its ruins and are absorbed in pleasure and superstition. Sometimes he
paints a picture of pure exultation, like that of the “Rise of
Carthage,” or “Dido and AEneas preparing for the Chase;” but he points
his sad moral by painting the “Decline
of
Carthage’
as a companion-picture to the former, and the sudden and terrible
termination to the love of Dido and AEneas is too well known to need
another picture to tell us thereof; “Fallacies of Hope,” “Sic transit
gloria mundi,” “The old order giving place to new,” “The serpent in the
grass “—Turner’s pictures, as a whole, are only these sad mottoes
written large in his own painter’s poetry. |
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