Joseph Mallord William Turner The Arch of Constantine, Rome c.1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Title
The Arch of Constantine, Rome
Date c.1835
Medium Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions Support: 914 x 1219 mm
frame: 1205 x 1503 x 120 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
N02066
Not on display

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The Arch of Constantine is one of the principal features of the Roman Forum. Evidently a pair to 'Tivoli: Tobias and the Angel', also on this wall, this study seems to have been abandoned just short of completion. There are various figures whose function cannot be discerned. The compositional symmetry derives from Claude, but Turner has heightened the effect with the vivid yellows he favoured in the 1830s.

September 1994

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