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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Forum Romanum cityscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner depicting the Roman Forum in the Italian capital of Rome . Painted during the Regency era it features surviving buildings from Ancient Rome seen in the afternoon light. It looks towards the Capitoline Hill with the Arch of Titus on the left and the Basilica of Constantine on the right.[ 1]
The work was commissioned by the architect John Soane for his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields . In the event the painting Turner produced was too large for the space that Soane had set aside in his cramped, already overfilled house. Nonetheless he generously sent Turner a cheque for the agreed five hundred guineas . Turner returned the cheque and kept the painting. Art historian Anthony Bailey wrote "If Soane had been sensible, he would have cleared out some of the clutter in his house in order to hang a glowing masterpiece ".[ 2]
When it was publicly displayed at the Royal Academy 's 1826 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House reviewers criticised the overuse of yellow paint in the composition. This was part of a trend in Turner's paintings of the era which was dubbed his "yellow fever " by one critic. [ 3] Turner Bequest in 1856.[ 4]
Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun . Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History . Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Shanes, Eric. The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner . Parkstone International, 2012.
Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales c. 1799 –1800)Welsh Mountain Landscape c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )Dutch Boats in a Gale Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Windsor Castle from the Thames Walton Bridges A Country Blacksmith Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Apollo and Python Saltash with the Water Ferry Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht The Field of Waterloo Richmond Hill Entrance of the Meuse Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael The Chain Pier, Brighton Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus View of Orvieto The Loretto Necklace Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus The Evening Star Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Pilate Washing his Hands Caligula's Palace and Bridge Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight Line Fishing, Off Hastings Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino The Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )Queen Mab's Cave The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
