J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, from the Arcade 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, from the Arcade’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, from the Arcade 1819
D14552
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘32’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘View from [sic] Madonna di San Luca’): ‘arcades in foreground’.1 The view is from the lower stages of the long arcade, looking south-west in the direction of the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca on the skyline.
For Cecilia Powell’s general comments on Turner’s views of Bologna from a distance and around the Sanctuary (folios 32 verso–39 recto; D14545–D14558; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 28a–35), see under D14545;2 for the arcade and the Sanctuary itself, under folio 42 recto (D14564; CLXXVI 38);3 and for Bologna in general and numerous views on adjacent pages, under folio 24 recto (D14532).

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.517.
2
See Powell 1984, pp.92, 466 note 110, and Powell 1987, pp.25, 202 note 46.
3
See also Powell 1984, pp.84–6.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, from the Arcade 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-sanctuary-of-the-madonna-di-san-luca-bologna-from-the-r1186288, accessed 14 May 2024.