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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.
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Venice, the Grand Canal
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| This is another picture of Venice, giving much the same view as that
entitled “Venice, from Oanal Giudecca.” It gives, however, a nearer view
of the Square of St. Mark with its two ancient columns. the Doge’s
Palace, and the Campanile. It will be seen, on comparison, that the two
pictures do not entirely agree in details: that the Campanile i
represented as much loftier in the one previously given, and that the
Palace is not built at the same angle. This picture is an earlier one,
which the artist may possibly have painted on the spot, or when he was
more careful of local correctness. But much, however, as it may be
superior to the other in topographical accuracy, it is inferior in
mystic charm, in the picturesque grouping of the boats. and in aerial
magic. The point of view is also not so happily chosen, as it does riot
take in the domes and minarets which are introduced so effectively on
the left of the other picture. Turner had two Venices—Venice as it was,
and the Venice of his imagination: Venice, the busy and gay city of
Italy; and Venice, the daughter of the sea, the paradise of Art. He has
left enough specimens of each, equally good of their kind, to satisfy
the most realistic and the most poetical of his admirers; but to those,
and there are many, who can at will indulge in either mood, it is
difficult to find fault with ,any of his Venetian pictures. |
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