Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Vision of Medea oil painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner combining elements of landscape and history painting . It features a scene based on Greek Mythology with Medea gathering ingredients to cast a spell after she has been rejected by Jason , the leader of the Argonauts .[ 1]
It was produced while Turner was visiting Italy and was first shown in a mini-exhibition in his artist's studio at the Palazzo Trulli in Rome .[ 2] Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition of 1829 at Somerset House , it did not arrive from Italy in time.[ 3] Royal Academy Exhibition of 1831 where it hung to one side of John Constable 's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows Caligula's Palace and Bridge .
Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.[ 4]
See also
References
Bibliography
Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun . Tate Enterprises, 2013.
Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History . Routledge, 2017.
Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun; Turner's Vision of History . McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
Hamilton, James. Constable: A Portrait . Hachette UK, 2022.
Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life . Sceptre, 1998.
Reynolds, Graham. Turner . Thames & Hudson, 2022.
Paintings
Lambeth Palace The Rising Squall 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 Dunstanburgh Castle Aeneas and the Sibyl c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Coniston Fells Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Harlech Castle from Tygwyn Ferry Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales 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 )View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Fifth Plague of Egypt Dutch Boats in a Gale Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather Salisbury Cathedral from the Cloisters The Tenth Plague of Egypt Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland Jason Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Bonneville, Savoy Calais Pier The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour Boats Carrying Out Anchors The Destruction of Sodom The Deluge The Shipwreck Windsor Castle from the Thames Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen The Thames at Weybridge Walton Bridges Cliveden on Thames A Country Blacksmith Linlithgow Palace Newark Abbey Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour The Junction of the Thames and the Medway The Battle of Trafalgar The Forest of Bere Pope's Villa at Twickenham Margate Sheerness as Seen from the Nore The Unpaid Bill View of Richmond Hill and Bridge Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand The Garreteer's Petition Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips Thomson's Aeolian Harp The Trout Stream Sun Setting through Vapour The Fish Market at Hastings Beach High Street, Oxford The Wreck of a Transport Ship Apollo and Python Somer Hill, Tonbridge Saltash with the Water Ferry Hulks on the Tamar St Mawes at the Pilchard Season Teignmouth Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Raby Castle Dort or Dordrecht The Field of Waterloo A First Rate Taking in Stores Richmond Hill Entrance of the Meuse Rome, from the Vatican George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh The Battle of Trafalgar What You Will! The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Rembrandt's Daughter Scene in Derbyshire The Chain Pier, Brighton Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Palestrina Regulus View of Orvieto Vision of Medea The Banks of the Loire The Loretto Necklace Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Calais Sands at Low Water The Evening Star Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Jessica Pilate Washing his Hands Caligula's Palace and Bridge Lifeboat and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel Van Tromp's Barge Entering the Texel Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay Helvoetsluys Staffa, Fingal's Cave Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House Quillebeuf, Mouth of the Seine Rotterdam Ferry-Boat Van Goyen Looking Out for a Subject The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons A Disaster at Sea 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 Parting of Hero and Leander The Fighting Temeraire Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish Ovid Banished from Rome Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino The Slave Ship Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Glaucus and Scylla Schloss Rosenau The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgio Campo Santo Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour The Opening of the Wallhalla St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina The Sun of Venice Going to Sea Venice, Maria della Salute Approach to Venice Venice Quay, Ducal Palace Ostend Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers Whalers Entangled in Flaw Ice Queen Mab's Cave The Hero of a Hundred Fights The Wreck Buoy Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
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