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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca beyond its Arcade 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca beyond its Arcade’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca beyond its Arcade 1819
D14557
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned vertically, the view is to the south-west along the final straight of the arcade along the Via di San Luca before the turn to the right to approach the west front of the church.
For 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;1 for the arcade and the Sanctuary itself, under folio 42 recto (D14564; CLXXVI 38);2 and for Bologna in general and numerous views on adjacent pages, under folio 24 recto (D14532).

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Powell 1984, pp.92, 466 note 110, and Powell 1987, pp.25, 202 note 46.
2
See also Powell 1984, pp.84–6.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca beyond its 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-beyond-its-arcade-r1186293, accessed 23 April 2024.