Watercolour and bodycolour on paper
Venice: St Mark’s Square, the Piazzetta and the Molo
Venice: St Mark’s Square, the Piazzetta and the Molo
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Figures in Piazzetta Venice at Night with Basilica and Campanile San Marco St Marks
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
bell tower
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
crowd
dome
features
figure
groups
Italy
night
people
places
religious
square
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
Venice, Piazetta
Venice, San Marco
<p>This view of Venice at night, made during Turner’s last visit in 1840, shows his political awareness. An Austrian soldier and his striped sentry box remind us that for all its former grandeur and picturesque fascination, Venice was now a city under foreign rule.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2022</em></p>
paper unique watercolour bodycolour
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
10 September 2014 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-09-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-09-10
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Exhibition
26 March 2015 – 27 May 2020
2020-05-27
27 November 2019 – 27 May 2020
2020-05-27
2019-11-27
Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong, China)
2015-03-26
British Landscape
Tate partnerships & programmes
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
Figures in the Piazzetta, Venice, at Night, with the Basilica and Campanile of San Marco (St Mark’s)
support: 150 × 228 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
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<p>This view of Venice at night, made during Turner’s last visit in 1840, shows his political awareness. An Austrian soldier and his striped sentry box remind us that for all its former grandeur and picturesque fascination, Venice was now a city under foreign rule.</p>
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adults architecture bell tower cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents crowd dome features figure groups Italy night people places religious square times of the day townscapes / man-made features Venice, Piazetta Venice, San Marco
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