|
Home
Up
Art Books
Arts Books USA
Art Posters
Turner chronology
John Constable
English Castles
Engraving 1820 -35
English Rivers
English Towns
Fighting Temeraire
Gallery of Paintings
Liber Studiorum
Picture table
Rain, Steam Speed
Slave Ship
Turner Auction
Turner Ireland
Turner Marine
Turner sunrise
Turner Switerland
TurnerTrafalgar
Turner in Venice
Venice in Oils
Turner's methods
vanishing day
Impressionist
Post impressionist
Romanticism in art
Sir Joshua Reynolds
John Ruskin
Claude Lorrain
famous artist
Famous paintings
Art links
Stores shop
Shopping USA
UK shopping
Links to artist
Art and Artist
| |
Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA. The Engravings. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. Turner products many engravings and was very
hands-on in there progress to printings.
|
 |
The Loretto Necklace
|
| Very lovely picture of Italian scenery. On the height to the right
is seen part of the town of Loretto with the Basilica. Down the side of
the hill a cascade falls to meet the river that rushes at its foot. In
the middle distance a long viaduct of many arches spans the river and
the valley, and beyond stretches a wide prospect of hilly country. In
the foreground the water makes its way through huge blocks of stone, and
the centre is occupied by a large tree to which it would be difficult to
assign a name. Ruskin says that Turner originally intended it for a
stone-pine and afterwards altered it, adding the lower foliage, and so
spoiled a very noble work. Under the tree are two figures—a youth
adorning a girl with the necklace which gives its name to the picture.
“The Loretto Necklace” was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the ‘year
1829, and was one of those pictures bequeathed by Turner to the nation.
It is one of the few large pictures of Italian scenery which Turner
painted without classical or historical figures, and without any sad or
deep lesson peering though its leaves. |
| |
Search Amazon UK
|
