Turner and Venice

Synopsis: Venice is the subject that dominates the later paintings and watercolours of J.M.W Turner. Filmed in Italy and London, and produced alongside Tate’s major 2003-4 exhibition, this film explores all aspects of the rich relationship between the painter and the city. Turner was 44 when he first became one of the many distinguished nineteenth-century visitors to Venice. During his 1819 trip and two further stays in 1833 and 1840, he created a host of sketches that he later developed into dazzling reflections on light and colour, history and literature, tradition and modernity.

Among those interviewed are the exhibition’s curator Ian Warrell, historian David Laven, poet Andrew Motion, and artist Cornelia Parker.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2003
Year of production: 2003
Subjects: Art
Keywords: paintings - British; Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851); Venice

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