Watercolour, bodycolour and graphite on paper
Venice: In and around the Hotel Europa
Venice: In and around the Hotel Europa
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on loan
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Church San Giorgio Maggiore Venice across Bacino Hotel Europa Palazzo Giustinian towards Sunset
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
bell tower
canal
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
industrial
Italy
places
religious
sunset
times of the day
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore
<p>Turner made a sequence of studies of Palladio's church of S. Giorgio Maggiore on his 1840 trip to Venice. The 'Autobiography' of the watercolourist William Callow (1812-1908) contains an interesting glimpse of Turner at work during this visit: 'The next time I saw Turner was at Venice, at Hotel Europa, where we sat opposite at meals and entered into conversation. One evening whilst I was enjoying a cigar in a gondola I saw Turner sketching San Giorgio, brilliantly lit up by the settting sun.' It is likely that a number of the studies made by Turner on this trip, including perhaps some of San Giorgio, were coloured in front of the motif.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour bodycolour graphite
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)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
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
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
6 July 2024 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
6 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
2024-09-01
2024-07-06
Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
30 September 2024 – 7 May 2025
2025-05-07
2024-09-30
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
21 June 2025 – 5 October 2025
2025-10-05
2025-06-21
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, across the Bacino from the Hotel Europa (Palazzo Giustinian) towards Sunset
support: 193 × 281 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>Turner made a sequence of studies of Palladio's church of S. Giorgio Maggiore on his 1840 trip to Venice. The 'Autobiography' of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolourist</span></a> William Callow (1812-1908) contains an interesting glimpse of Turner at work during this visit: 'The next time I saw Turner was at Venice, at Hotel Europa, where we sat opposite at meals and entered into conversation. One evening whilst I was enjoying a cigar in a gondola I saw Turner sketching San Giorgio, brilliantly lit up by the settting sun.' It is likely that a number of the studies made by Turner on this trip, including perhaps some of San Giorgio, were coloured in front of the motif.</p>
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