J. M. W. Turner The Arch of Constantine, Rome 1835

J. M. W. Turner - The Arch of Constantine, Rome 1835

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From Tate, London:
The Arch of Constantine is one of the principal features of the Roman Forum. Evidently a pair to 'Tivoli: Tobias and the Angel', also on this wall, this study seems to have been abandoned just short of completion. There are various figures whose function cannot be discerned. The compositional symmetry derives from Claude, but Turner has heightened the effect with the vivid yellows he favoured in the 1830s.

In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people relaxing
in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte. The
artist worked on the painting in several campaigns, beginning in 1884 with a layer
of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colors. He later added small
dots, also in complementary colors, that appear as solid and luminous forms
when seen from a distance. - impressionist-ART.com

Édouard Manet - A woman pouring water 1858. The picture has subtle
allusions to Italian Renaissance painting in the poetic way Suzanne is
depicted. The colouring and the placing of the figure in front of a window
with a view of a Classical landscape, too, recalls Italian Renaissance
pictures. The painting of Suzanne forms part of a whole series of very
complex compositions in which Manet, as an avantgardist, very consci-
ously explored and challenged the tradition of painting. - ArtsViewer.com

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851