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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, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower 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: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening 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 )Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge London from Greenwich Park The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Saltash with the Water Ferry Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Frosty Morning Dido building Carthage, or, The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs 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 (Goethe's Theory) – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
