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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Arch Constantine Rome
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
classical
countries and continents
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Italy
monument
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Rome, Forum, Arch of Constantine
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<p>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.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 1994</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
13 August 2001 – 23 June 2002
2002-06-23
13 August 2001 – 23 June 2002
2002-06-23
2001-08-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-13
Painting Landscape and History
Collection based display
10 April 2006 – 12 March 2007
2007-03-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-10
Impressions and Ideas Turner's Oil Sketches and Studies
Collection based display
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)
http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/
2008-11-16
Turner and Italy
Loan-out
24 February 2011 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
24 February 2011 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
2011-02-24
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, Italy)
2011-02-24
The Myth of  Italy from Turner to Burne-Jones
Loan-out
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
21 March 2018 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
21 March 2018 – 26 August 2018
2018-08-26
2018-03-21
Chiostro del Bramante (Rome, Italy)
http://www.chiostrodelbramante.it/
2018-03-21
Turner Watercolours
Tate partnerships & programmes
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
The Arch of Constantine, Rome
support: 914 × 1219 mm
frame: 1205 × 1503 × 120 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>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.</p>
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<p><b>438. </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-the-arch-of-constantine-rome-n02066" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02066</span></a>]<b> The Arch of Constantine, Rome</b> <i>c.</i> 1835</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (2066)</p>
<p>Canvas, 36 × 48 (91 × 122)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1906.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> New York, Chicago and Toronto 1946–7 (55, pl. 48); Venice and Rome 1948 (44); Edinburgh 1968 (7); R.A. 1974–5 (487); Leningrad and Moscow 1975–6 (54, repr.).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> MacColl 1920, pp. 34–5.</p>
<p><b>Repr.</b> Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, pl. 111.</p>
<p>Very close in style and degree of completion to No. 437 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-tivoli-tobias-and-the-angel-n02067" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02067</span></a>], <i>q.v.</i>
For the topography of the scene see the account by Alfred Thornton printed in MacColl, <i>loc. cit.</i></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
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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adults architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) classical countries and continents figure Italy monument monuments path people periods and styles places Rome, Forum, Arch of Constantine ruins sunset times of the day townscapes / man-made features tree triumphal arch