Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner.
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Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner.
Yazar:
Shanes, Eric.
ISBN:
9781780429595
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1 online resource (256 pages)
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Temptis
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For two avid Turner admirers, Marilyn and Jeremy Roberts, with much love -- Contents -- Preface -- The Life -- The Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner -- The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth -- Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford -- Interior of King John's Palace, Eltham -- St Anselm's Chapel, with part of Thomas-à-Becket's Crown, Canterbury Cathedral -- Welsh Bridge at Shrewsbury -- Fishermen at Sea -- Woolverhampton, Staffordshire -- Trancept of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire -- The Dormitory and Transcept of Fountain's Abbey - Evening -- Warkworth Castle, Northumberland - thunder storm approaching at sunset -- The Chapter House, Salisbury Cathedral -- Dolbadern Castle, North Wales -- Caernarvon Castle, North Wales -- Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to put their Fish on Board -- Kilchern Castle, with the Cruchan Ben mountains, Scotland: Noon -- Interior of Salisbury Cathedral, looking towards the North Transept -- Calais Pier, with French Poissards preparing for Sea: an English Packet arriving -- Fall of the Reichenbach, in the valley of Oberhasli, Switzerland -- The Shipwreck -- Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake -- The Thames near Walton Bridges -- Sun rising through Vapour -- Fishermen cleaning and selling Fish -- Pope's Villa at Twickenham -- Sheerness as seen from the Nore -- Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire -- Battle Abbey -- The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons -- Weymouth, Dorsetshire -- Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army crossing the Alps -- Ivy Bridge, Devonshire -- The Mew Stone at the Entrance of Plymouth Sound -- Mer de Glace, in the Valley of Chamouni, Switzerland -- The Devil's Bridge, St Gothard -- Crossing the Brook -- The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d'Aoste, Piedmont, 1796 -- Mont Blanc from Fort Roch, Val d'Aosta -- Dido building Carthage -- or, the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, 1815.
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire - Rome being determined on the Overthrow of her Hated Rival, demanded from hersuch Terms as might either force her into War, or ruin her by Compliance: the Enervated Carthaginians, in their Anxiety forPeace, consented to give up even their Arms and their Children, 1817 -- The Vale of Ashburnham -- Wycliffe, near Rokeby -- Crook of Lune, looking towards Hornby Castle -- Simmer Lake, near Askrig -- Mount Vesuvius in Eruption -- The Field of Waterloo -- Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam becalmed -- Weathercote Cave when half filled with water -- First-Rate, taking in stores, -- Loss of an East Indiaman -- Borthwick Castle -- England: Richmond Hill on the Prince Regent's Birthday -- MARXBOURG and BRUGBERG on the RHINE -- Passage of Mont Cenis -- More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne -- Norham Castle, on the River Tweed -- Dover Castle -- A Storm (Shipwreck) -- Roslin Castle -- Rye, Sussex -- Totnes, on the River Dart -- Boscastle, Cornwall -- The Battle of Trafalgar -- Rise of the River Stour at Stourhead -- Grenoble Bridge -- Portsmouth -- Richmond Hill -- Bolton Abbey -- Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland -- Richmond Castle and Town, Yorkshire -- Forum Romanum, for Mr Soane's Museum -- Lancaster Sands -- The Seat of William Moffatt Esq., at Mortlake, Early (Summer's) Morning -- Mortlake Terrace, the Seat of William Moffatt, Esq. Summer's Evening -- Orfordness -- Petworth Park, with Lord Egremont and his Dogs -- Sample Study, -- Salisbury, from Old Sarum Intrenchment -- Stonehenge -- Ulysses deriding Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey -- Stoneyhurst College, Lancashire -- Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence, a sketch from memory -- Northampton, Northamptonshire -- Traitor's Gate, Tower of London -- Scio (Fontana de Melek, Mehmet Pasha) -- Loch Coriskin, -- Mouth of the Seine, Quille-Boeuf.
The Golden Bough -- Temple of Minerva Sunias, Cape Colonna -- Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute -- The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834 -- Flint Castle, North Wales -- Snow Storm, Avalanche and Inundation - a Scene in the Upper Part of Val d'Aouste, Piedmont -- Modern Italy - The Pifferari -- The Fighting "Temeraire", tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838 -- Ancient Rome: Agrippina landing with the Ashes of Germanicus. The Triumphal Bridge and Palace of the Caesars restored -- Venice: the Bridge of Sighs -- Venice: A storm in the Piazzetta -- Venice: the Grand Canal looking towards the Dogana -- Heidelberg, with a rainbow -- Heidelberg: sunset -- Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhon coming on -- The Lake of Geneva with the Dent d'Oche: tending the vines -- Lake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen -- The Blue Rigi: Lake Lucerne, sunrise -- The Red Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, sunset -- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich -- The Pass of Faido -- Rain, Steam and Speed - the Great Western Railway -- Whalers -- The Clyde -- Inverary Pier. Loch Fyne. Morning -- The Lungerer See, Switzerland -- The Lauerzersee, with the Mythens -- Yacht approaching the Coast -- TURNER AND HIS CRITICS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an illustrator. He travelled, first in his native land and then on several occasions in France, the Rhine Valley, Switzerland and Italy. He soon began to look beyond illustration. However, even in works in which we are tempted to see only picturesque imagination, there appears his dominant and guiding ideal of lyric landscape. His choice of a single master from the past is an eloquent witness for he studied profoundly such canvases of Claude as he could find in England, copying and imitating them with a marvellous degree of perfection. His cult for the great painter never failed. He desired his Sun Rising through Vapour and Dido Building Carthage to be placed in the National Gallery side by side with two of Claude's masterpieces. And, there, we may still see them and judge how legitimate was this proud and splendid homage. It was only in 1819 that Turner went to Italy, to go again in 1829 and 1840. Certainly Turner experienced emotions and found subjects for reverie which he later translated in terms of his own genius into symphonies of light and colour. Ardour is tempered with melancholy, as shadow strives with light. Melancholy, even as it appears in the enigmatic and profound creation of Albrecht Dürer, finds no home in Turner's protean fairyland - what place could it have in a cosmic dream? Humanity does not appear there, except perhaps as stage characters at whom we hardly glance. Turner's pictures fascinate us and yet we think of nothing precise, nothing human, only unforgettable colours and phantoms that lay hold on our imaginations. Humanity really
only inspires him when linked with the idea of death - a strange death, more a lyrical dissolution - like the finale of an opera.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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