Oil paint on canvas
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Venice Piazzetta with Ceremony Doge Marrying Sea
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
canal
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
crowd
features
figure
groups
industrial
Italy
people
places
tower
townscapes / man-made features
Venice, Doge’s Palace
waterfront
<p>Although this painting is unfinished, it is possible to imagine how Turner would have developed it. The top half of the Doge's Palace and the Campanile of S.Marco are recognisable, but Turner abandoned the picture before bringing it to the detailed finish of other Venetian subjects dating from the 1830s. Among the group of figures in the foreground on the left is the Doge, depicted in the act of wedding the sea through the ritualised gift of a gold ring. The ceremony had ceased to take place by Turner's time, which implies that he intended the picture to be an historical subject.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
3 April 2001 – 16 December 2001
2001-12-16
3 April 2001 – 9 July 2001
2001-07-09
2001-04-03
Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais (Paris, France)
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1 September 2001 – 16 December 2001
2001-12-16
2001-09-01
Centro Internazionale d’Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te (Mantova, Italy)
2001-04-03
Italian Landscape: Thomas Jones to Corot, 1780-1830
Loan-out
9 October 2003 – 30 May 2004
2004-05-30
9 October 2003 – 11 January 2004
2004-01-11
2003-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
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15 February 2004 – 30 May 2004
2004-05-30
2004-02-15
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
2003-10-09
Turner and Venice
Exhibition
16 November 2008 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
23 November 2008 – 22 February 2009
2009-02-22
2008-11-23
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
23 March 2009 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
2009-03-23
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
15 July 2009 – 25 October 2009
2009-10-25
2009-07-15
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary)
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2008-11-16
Turner and Italy
Loan-out
8 February 2013 – 13 April 2014
2014-04-13
8 February 2013 – 19 May 2013
2013-05-19
2013-02-08
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)
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4 June 2013 – 8 September 2013
2013-09-08
2013-06-04
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
8 October 2013 – 18 December 2013
2013-12-18
2013-10-08
Toyko Metropolitan Art Museum (Toyko, Japan)
1 January 2014 – 13 April 2014
2014-04-13
2014-01-01
Kobe City Museum (Kobe, Japan)
2013-02-08
J.M.W. Turner: Makings of a Master
Loan-out
10 March 2018 – 10 June 2018
2018-06-10
10 March 2018 – 10 June 2018
2018-06-10
2018-03-10
Palazzo Ducale (Venice, Italy)
2018-03-10
John Ruskin. The Stones of Venice
Loan-out
21 March 2018 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
16 March 2020 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
2020-03-16
Musée Jacquemart-André (Paris, France)
2018-03-21
Turner Watercolours
Tate partnerships & programmes
8 April 2019 – 5 August 2019
2019-08-05
8 April 2019 – 5 August 2019
2019-08-05
2019-04-08
Brantwood (Cumbria, UK)
2019-04-08
Incandescence: Turner in Venice
Loan-out
16 October 2021 – 14 July 2023
2023-07-14
16 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
2022-03-06
2021-10-16
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Aarhus, Denmark)
18 May 2022 – 11 September 2022
2022-09-11
2022-05-18
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
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8 October 2022 – 5 February 2023
2023-02-05
2022-10-08
National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland)
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3 March 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-03-03
Fondation Pierre Gianadda (Martigny, Switzerland)
2021-10-16
Turner Watercolours: Sun is God
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Venice, the Piazzetta with the Ceremony of the Doge Marrying the Sea
support: 914 × 1219 mm
frame: 1290 × 1595 × 90 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Although this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is unfinished, it is possible to imagine how Turner would have developed it. The top half of the Doge's Palace and the Campanile of S.Marco are recognisable, but Turner abandoned the picture before bringing it to the detailed finish of other Venetian subjects dating from the 1830s. Among the group of figures in the foreground on the left is the Doge, depicted in the act of wedding the sea through the ritualised gift of a gold ring. The ceremony had ceased to take place by Turner's time, which implies that he intended the picture to be an historical subject.</p>
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<p><b>501. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-venice-the-piazzetta-with-the-ceremony-of-the-doge-marrying-the-sea-n04446" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04446</span></a>]<b> Venice, the Piazzetta with the Ceremony of the Doge marrying the Sea</b> <i>c.</i> 1835</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (4446)</p>
<p>Canvas, 36 × 48 (91·5 × 122)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (136, one of 36 each 4'0" × 3'0"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1948.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Rotterdam 1955 (58); New York 1966 (12, repr. p. 36); Edinburgh 1968 (8).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 156, 188 n. 14; Gowing 1966, p. 36, repr.; Herrmann 1975, p. 47, pl. 156; Wilton 1979, p. 224.</p>
<p>Formerly given a solely topographical title, this picture has been identified by Lawrence Gowing as a work in progress on the subject of the Doge symbolically marrying the Adriatic, which Turner could have known from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venetian examples. Turner seems to have abandoned the picture at the moment of drastically altering the roof-line of the Doge's Palace on the right.</p>
<p>Tentatively datable to the mid 1830s on account of its relatively strong colouring and thickly applied paint. In addition, Turner seems to have abandoned his standard 3 ft by 4 ft format for Venetian exhibits after 1836, but see Nos. 505 {<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-arrival-of-louis-philippe-at-the-royal-clarence-yard-gosport-8-october-1844-n02068" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02068</span></a>] and 506 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-disembarkation-of-louis-philippe-at-the-royal-clarence-yard-gosport-8-october-n04660" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04660</span></a>], and also the upright No. 368.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults architecture canal cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents crowd features figure groups industrial Italy people places tower townscapes / man-made features Venice, Doge’s Palace waterfront