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Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino

Joseph Mallord William Turner

British, London 1775~Chelsea 1851

Ten years after his final journey to Rome, Turner envisioned the Eternal City through a shimmering veil of memory and Imagination, Baroque churches and ancient monuments in and around the Roman Forum seem to dissolve in iridescent light shed by a moon rising at left and a sun setting behind the Capitoline Hill at right. Amid these splendors, the city’ inhabitants carry on with their daily activities.